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Here are the transcripts of the exchange via the Daily Caller Source

REP. DARRELL ISSA: Well, let me — let me run you through some questions here because you’re here because we’re having a green jobs counting discussion. Does someone who assembles turbines — is that a green job?
MS. JANE OATES: Wind turbines?
REP. ISSA: Yeah. Wind turbines.
MS. OATES: I think we would call any kind of sustainable manufacturing –
REP. ISSA: OK
. MS. OATES: — fitting the definition that was –
REP. ISSA: Does someone who sweeps — does someone who sweeps the floor in a facility that makes solar panels, is that a green job?
MS. OATES: Solar? I’ll give that to –
REP. ISSA: To Galvin?
MS. OATES: — if you don’t mind.
MR. JOHN GALVIN: We define — we have a two-part definition –
REP. ISSA: We already had the briefing on that. So just answer the question. If you’re sweeping the floor in a solar panel production facility, is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: If you ask me for the number of health care jobs in the United States, I’ll give you the employment from the health care industry.
REP. ISSA: Look, Mr. Galvin –
MR. GALVIN: — nurses and doctors –
REP. ISSA: You did not want to come here as a witness. You are not a delighted witness. So let’s go through this. I asked you a question. You know the answer. Would you please answer it. If you sweep the floor in a solar panel facility, is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: Thank you. If you drive a hybrid bus — public transportation — is that a green job?
MR. GALVIN: According to our definition, yes.
REP. ISSA: Thank you. What if you’re a college professor teaching classes about environmental studies?
MR. GALVIN: Yes
. REP. ISSA: What about just any school bus driver?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: What about the guy who puts gas in the school bus?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: How about employees at a bicycle shop?
MR. GALVIN: I guess I’m not sure about that.
REP. ISSA: The answer is yes, according to your definition. And you’ve got a lot of them. What about a clerk at the bicycle repair shop?
MR. GALVIN: Yes
. REP. ISSA: What about someone who works in an antique dealer?
MR. GALVIN: I’m not sure about that either
. REP. ISSA: The answer is yes. Those are — those are recycled goods. They’re antiques; they’re used. What about someone who works at the Salvation Army in their clothing recycling and furniture?
MR. GALVIN: Right. Because they’re selling recycled goods.
REP. ISSA: OK. What about somebody who opened a store to sell rare manuscripts?
MR. GALVIN: What industry is that?
REP. ISSA: People sell rare books and manuscripts — but they’re rare because they’re old so they’re used.
MR. GALVIN: OK.
REP. ISSA: What about workers at a consignment shop?
MR. GALVIN: That’s a green job.
REP. ISSA: Does the teenage kid who works full time at a used record shop count?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: How about somebody who manufacturers railroads rolling stock — basically, train cars?
MR. GALVIN: I don’t think we classified the manufacture of rail cars as –
REP. ISSA: 48.8 percent of jobs in manufacturing, rail cars counted, according to your statistics. About half of the jobs that are being used to build trains.
OK. How about — just one more here. What about people who work in a trash disposal yard? Do garbage men have green jobs?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.
REP. ISSA: OK. I apologize. The real last last is, how about an oil lobbyist? Wouldn’t an oil lobbyist count as having a green job if they are engaged in advocacy related to environmental issues?
MR. GALVIN: Yes.


The answers of this idiot are so ridiculous and laughable
1 posted on 06/11/2012 7:04:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The left manufactures what they want to pass as truth everyday.


2 posted on 06/11/2012 7:11:12 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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To: Kaslin

It’s my understanding that approximately 10,000 people retire each month. Their vacated positions are considered new private/public sector jobs. Pls correct me if I am wrong.


3 posted on 06/11/2012 7:24:11 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: Kaslin
I want to thank Rep. Darrell Issa he and only a few other congressional Representatives have been holding the feet of this tyrant administration to the fire.
4 posted on 06/11/2012 8:11:20 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER
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To: Kaslin

So I take it Mr. Galvin’s honesty has rendered him “dead” to the Obama administration?


5 posted on 06/11/2012 8:23:51 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Behind enemy lines in the city where it's illegal to buy a Big Gulp)
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To: Kaslin

REP. ISSA: What about the unemployed??? They’re not using gas to get to work. Are those green jobs?

MR. GALVIN: Yes.


6 posted on 06/11/2012 8:26:21 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Kaslin; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Lucky9teen; Daffynition
REP. ISSA: Does the teenage kid who works full time at a used record shop count?

MR. GALVIN: Yes.

"Dude! This IS a green job, I'm doin' my part for the environMENT. Get off my back, you sound like my dad."

7 posted on 06/11/2012 9:02:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: Kaslin

Go on Issa.

Government jobs are green since they keep shoveling the same bs at us over and over again.


8 posted on 06/11/2012 9:27:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Kaslin
Okaaay...... Then the following are ALL 'green jobs'
Architects
Mechanical Engineers
Structural Engineers
Draftsman
Project Managers
Estimators
ALL construction workers - from ditch digger to the illegal Mex hanging drywall.
The people who sweep floors and empty waste baskets in Arch-Engr firms
Developers, like Donald Trump (he's a Green Job Magnate!)
Hell, Everything is a 'Green Job' if you stretch it far enough. (morons!)
11 posted on 06/11/2012 11:52:34 AM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: Kaslin

Every time a green salesman solicits me at home, I tell them I have three words for them = green energy sucks. I hear the click in about a tenth of a second.


12 posted on 06/11/2012 6:16:40 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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