[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3761]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          PASS THE AMERICAN JOBS AND CLOSING TAX LOOPHOLES ACT

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, today the Congressional Black 
Caucus, which I chair, the Asian Pacific American Caucus, the 
Progressive Caucus, along with the Jobs Task Force conducted a forum 
with the Campaign for Community Change and the Lawyers Committee on 
Civil and Human Rights. We had a forum to discuss a comprehensive 
legislative strategy to create jobs, especially for the chronically 
unemployed.
  For example, the national unemployment rate is still way too high, 
over 9 percent. Yet, in the African American community it is over 16 
percent. African American and Latino teens are unemployed at nearly 40 
percent.
  It is critical that we pass H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing 
Tax Loopholes Act. This bill includes a summer youth jobs provision, 
which will put over 350,000 young people to work this summer. Our young 
people now are helping their families pay the rent and put food on the 
table. Also, summer youth jobs programs give them the essential jobs 
and life skills to be productive workers and employees.
  Under the Obama administration, we are beginning to see signs of hope 
in the economy, but we must do our part and invest in putting people 
back to work and pass H.R. 4213. This puts us on the right track.

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