[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 24, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H760]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOVERY ACT IS WORKING

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, let me tell you, here are the 
jobs. I believe if you polled across America you would understand that 
the investment that this Democratic Congress made, along with its 
President, created or saved 3.5 million jobs, gave 95 percent of 
American workers a tax cut, and began to build our crumbling rail and 
water and a variety of infrastructure.
  Where are the jobs? I will tell you, 2.4 million jobs were created 
according to the Congressional Budget Office, nonpartisan, $120 billion 
in tax cuts to 95 percent of our working families and to businesses, 
loaned nearly $20 billion to our small businesses creating or saving a 
job.
  What I like most of all is the 300,000 jobs in education and the 
400,000 jobs in corrections officers and public health personnel. Let's 
ask all the firefighters and police officers across America whether or 
not there were jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, I will tell you that we have invested in America. We had 
an economy that wasn't growing when we came in, down some 6 percent. 
Now it's up. We have the jobs, and we are going to do health care 
reform this morning as well.
  We are working for the American people.

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