HOUSE Republican Leader John Boehner

Washington, May 27, 2009 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today on the Administration’s “100 day” report on the Democrats’ trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending bill:

“What’s most remarkable about this latest stimulus report is what’s missing: funding for a skateboard park in Rhode Island, checks to the deceased in Maryland, taxpayer money for John Murtha’s ‘Airport For No One’ in his own backyard, and other well-chronicled examples of old-fashioned government waste.  The trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ has fallen short of the Administration’s claims, and middle-class families and small businesses are paying dearly.  It hasn’t created the jobs American families hoped for, brought the transparency to government the President promised, or moved money into communities as quickly as the Administration pledged.  On every score, it has not lived up to the expectations set out for it, all while leaving our children and grandchildren to foot the bill.

“It didn’t have to be this way.  Republicans had a better solution: a stimulus bill that would have created twice as many jobs as the Administration’s spending bill at half the price.  Unfortunately, Washington Democrats took a ‘go-it-alone’ approach, barreling ahead with their inefficient and wasteful ‘stimulus’ spending plan that has failed to produce the results the Administration promised.  The American people deserve better from Washington.”

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