[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 9, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H559-H560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TIME TO BEGIN THE DIALOGUE ABOUT JOBS

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, I spent this morning talking with people 
at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference. This conference is dedicated 
to building jobs for Americans that are

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sustainable, that are green, and that will help our country meet the 
needs of the future.
  They talked about efficiency. They talked about saving money with 
weatherization and putting people back to work doing it. Manufacturing, 
windmills, solar, all these things are so vitally important, and also 
transit, all of these critically important things to make our 
employment grow and to help us stay green.
  Unfortunately, however, Madam Speaker, we still have 14 million 
Americans who are unemployed; and in the time that we have spent in 
this new Congress, we have not spent any time talking about job 
creation, green or otherwise. The time is now to focus on jobs. I 
implore the majority caucus to begin the dialogue about jobs because we 
haven't talked about it at all.

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