[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H6051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
U.S. MANUFACTURING WILL LEAD US INTO RECOVERY
(Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Madam Speaker, Democrats are committed to
growing our economy and getting Americans back to work. We want to
continue to support America's manufacturing workers by closing tax
loopholes that outsource U.S. jobs overseas. These savings will pay for
hometown tax credits for small businesses to expand American
manufacturing jobs.
The Democrats are boosting incentives to create American clean energy
jobs and build state-of-the-art wind turbines, solar panels and other
new technologies. We can pay for this by ending subsidies to big oil
companies, government giveaways to companies that rake in millions of
dollars.
We are strengthening the rules that the U.S. Government and its
contractors buy American, especially to build our transportation,
energy and communications infrastructure. And we are telling foreign
countries like China to honor fair trade principles or lose American
business.
In just over 1 year we have turned our economy around, going from
losing nearly 800,000 jobs in the last month of the Bush administration
to 6 straight months of private sector job growth totaling nearly
600,000 new private sector jobs created just this year.
We are heading in the right direction and Democrats are going to
ensure that U.S. manufacturing will continue to lead us into economic
recovery. America will make things once again.
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