[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          WE NEED A JOBS BILL

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. One has to congratulate the other side for chutzpah. 
After racking up most of what is now the deficit, they have gotten 
religion on the deficit in the middle of a recession. When conservative 
and progressive economists say when the only body that has any money is 
the government, you better spend it for jobs.
  I wonder if in this House we would at least do what they did in the 
other body yesterday, when five Republicans crossed over to actually be 
for a modest jobs bill. It certainly is not the bill that I would have 
wanted, but what is noteworthy is that the majority of Republicans 
actually voted against the jobs bill yesterday that spent only $15 
billion.
  Were you afraid that that would contribute to the deficit? How much 
are you willing to help the American people get out of the deficit that 
you left us and get out of the economic morass that you have bequeathed 
us? One begins to wonder if we could even get unemployment insurance 
passed. We have sent over a bill to the other body which is far larger. 
Let's hope that we can get more such bills passed.

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