[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 25 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BIPARTISAN EFFORT FOR JOB CREATION

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, we all know that most of the political eyes 
and other eyes are focused down at the Blair House right now as the 
health care summit has just gotten underway, and my friend from Fort 
Lauderdale and I are going to begin the floor management of the very, 
very important intelligence authorization bill focused on our Nation's 
security.
  But we can't forget what issue is in the forefront of the minds of 
most Americans, and that is getting our economy back on track, focusing 
on job creation and economic growth. And we've just gotten the news 
this morning that there has been an unfortunate 12 percent increase in 
the jobless claims, and we continue to have mixed reports on where we 
are with the economy.
  It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that it's absolutely imperative for us 
to work in a bipartisan way to put into place true private sector job 
creation incentives, and by that I mean utilizing the bipartisan effort 
that was, in the last half century, utilized by John F. Kennedy in the 
early 1960s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. And I believe that if we 
were to implement those kind of policies, Mr. Speaker, we would see the 
kind of job creation that the American people are seeking.

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