[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 16, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   STILL NO JOBS PLAN AFTER 11 WEEKS

  (Mr. HINCHEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HINCHEY. We have now gone 11 weeks and still there hasn't been 
any action in committee or on this House floor on anything resembling a 
jobs plan from our friends here in the majority. In fact, we've seen 
just the opposite. Economists are estimating that from the initial 
action here, an estimated 800,000 jobs will be lost under their first 
plan and many more over the course of the rest of this issue. Hundreds 
of New York Head Start teachers will be fired, and thousands more 
teachers will be fired all across America. Thousands of my constituents 
won't be able to find jobs because of cuts to the Workforce Investment 
Act that will close job centers throughout New York, as well as 
thousands of others that will be closed in other States all across 
America. And jobs in the Hudson Valley's growing solar energy industry 
will be hurt by cuts to investments in renewable energy, just as it 
will be cut all across America. After 11 weeks, it's clear that the 
Republicans don't just have a no-jobs agenda, they have an anti-jobs 
agenda. And New Yorkers and millions of others across America will pay 
the price for their bad policies.

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