WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement on today's visit by Vice President Biden to Ohio:
"Vice President Biden today repeated the disingenuous assertion that no one offered an alternative to the Democrats' trillion-dollar ‘stimulus' spending bill that isn't working. That is false. Vice President Biden was in the room at the White House back in January when Republican Whip Eric Cantor and I presented President Obama with our plan to create more jobs by encouraging investment and letting families and small businesses more of what they earn. Democrats ignored that plan and took a go-it-alone-approach to pass a trillion-dollar spending plan that isn't working.
"Middle-class families and small businesses in Ohio and across the nation are asking, ‘where are the jobs?" and that's a question that the Vice President simply cannot answer. He and other Democrats in Washington promised that the ‘stimulus' would create jobs immediately and keep unemployment under eight percent. With unemployment now at 9.5 percent nationwide and above 10 percent in Ohio, it's time for the Vice President and the Democrats in charge of Washington to admit that the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus' isn't working. One way to protect and create jobs is by scrapping policies that will destroy even more American jobs, like Speaker Pelosi's national energy tax and a government takeover of health care financed by a new tax on small business."
NOTE: When selling Congress on its trillion-dollar "stimulus" spending bill, the Administration claimed it would create jobs "immediately." Today, Vice President Biden backpedaled, saying, "It's supposed to take 18 months." Also in Ohio today, Vice President Biden asserted, "We deserve to be held accountable."
Boehner represents Ohio's 8th District, which includes all of Darke, Miami and Preble counties, most of Butler and Mercer counties, and the northeastern corner of Montgomery County. He was first elected to Congress in 1990.
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