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Mr. LaTOURETTE. And I want to be clear because when I mentioned this 
earlier, the Humane Society got upset with me. I'm not saying that this 
is a bad piece of legislation. But what I'm saying is, for crying out 
loud, when people want to know where the jobs are, why are we debating 
the Monkey Safety Act? I don't get it. But you get down into March now. 
And so again, hundreds of thousands of people are out of work. And you 
would say, surely, we're going to talk about a jobs piece of 
legislation in the House of Representatives. But when we get into 
March, the most important thing that they could come up with was the 
Shark Conservation Act. And, again, I like sharks. I don't like to swim 
with sharks, but sharks are nice to watch on television. But, again, 
where are the jobs, and where's the legislation?
  And then we get out to where this chart ends at the end of March. I'm 
working on a new one that'll take us to where we are today. But you get 
out and, again, bad jobs report, tens of thousands more people have 
lost their jobs. And the most important thing that the majority leader 
could put on the floor was supporting pi.
  Mr. WALDEN. Supporting pie?
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Supporting Pi Day.
  Mr. WALDEN. Apple pie or cherry?
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. No, it's not P-I-E, which as you can tell from my 
girth, I enjoy pie. This is pi, the math formula, 3.14 or whatever it 
is. And we needed to recognize the importance of the number 3.14, 
rather than dealing with the people that are out of work in this 
country. So then, you know, to be fair to the majority, they will say, 
well, wait a minute. That's not all we did. We also passed the stimulus 
bill. And the stimulus bill, just south of $800 billion, and it was 
advertised as creating 3 million new jobs across country. It's now been 
in place for about 9, 10 months, and my constituents, at least, are 
continuing to ask, where are the jobs?