[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 114 (Wednesday, July 27, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H5592-H5593]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WE CAN REVIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, it's been 29 weeks since Republicans 
took control of the House, and yet they have failed to bring a single 
jobs bill to the floor. In fact, I just learned that their proposals 
are estimated to cost another

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2 million lost jobs. Instead, they're wasting time pushing bills that 
will never become law but do make their position clear. Republicans are 
willing to hold the full faith and credit of the United States hostage 
in order to push for extreme policies that will gut Social Security, 
Medicare, and Medicaid and devastate the economy and the middle class 
while doing everything they can to protect millionaires and 
billionaires and companies that ship American jobs overseas.
  We need to raise the debt ceiling and then turn our attention to the 
real crisis, the jobs crisis. We can revive the American Dream. We 
must.

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