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- FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD URGED TO FOREGO INTEREST RATE INCREASE
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- (Mr. GEJDENSON asked and was given permission to address the House
- for 1 minute.)
- Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Speaker, the Fed Chairman tells us that senior
- citizens are benefiting by an overstatement of inflation in this
- country. The Fed Chairman told us there is a crisis in Mexico. It seems
- to me the Fed Chairman and his policy helped create the crisis in
- Mexico, and if he is correct about the fact that inflation is
- overstated in the indicators, then he ought not raise taxes and he
- ought not raise interest rates.
- In my State and in my district in Connecticut, many people still want
- jobs that do not have them. A Fed policy that is based on creating more
- unemployed is an outrage in a country that is talking about putting
- people to work. You cannot sit there and tell us that you want welfare
- people to go to work and then raise interest rates so working people
- lose their jobs. If there ought to be jobs that are lost, they ought to
- be at the Fed. We ought to keep inflation not higher but lower so that
- more Americans go to work, so we can have a stronger economy and
- continue to reduce this deficit.
- Mr. Speaker, the Fed policy goes against everything we have done to
- increase employment and cut the deficit. I say to the Chairman, ``Don't
- raise interest rates anymore.''
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