[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 30 (Thursday, March 4, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H1151]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           A QUESTION OF JOBS

  (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, this is a question of jobs, 
and I don't want tomorrow's numbers, if they happen to be showing that 
we have not reached the goals that we want to reach, to in any way 
distract from the work the Democrats are doing and that we should be 
doing together.
  I have concerns about what we just passed as it relates to jobs, 
although I support the infrastructure part of the bill. I think that, 
if we focus on jobs, we've got to save NASA, and we've got to ensure 
that we continue human spaceflight.
  Then we've got to go into neighborhoods and areas where there are the 
chronically unemployed. We have to put up recruitment offices so that 
we can provide real opportunities for jobs to build America's 
infrastructure. We have to go to the public housing projects and make 
sure that those who live there can work on the rehabilitation of those 
projects.
  Those who are chronically unemployed need to have a job in hand. They 
need to be able to be trained and then work. Those who are unemployed 
need to be able to be trained for new jobs and not lose their 
unemployment. We've got to put a job in the hand of the chronically 
unemployed. That's what I will continue to fight for. That's the 
legislation that I will support.

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