[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 132 (Thursday, September 8, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H5979]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. CLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ask our friends in the majority to 
put their country ahead of their party and join us by enacting the Make 
It in America jobs agenda.
  Jobs is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue. Putting America 
back to work is what we all should be fighting for. When working 
families hurt, America hurts, and what elevates them lifts up the 
entire Nation.
  We must pass without delay a reauthorization of the vital highway and 
transit bill. We need to enact the Make It in America agenda to 
strengthen our manufacturing, technological, and industrial base.
  We need to build up America's infrastructure by putting people to 
work, rebuilding our roads, bridges, railways, ports, schools and 
airports; and we need to speed disaster assistance to hard-hit 
communities without injecting partisan politics into the process.
  The time for political games is over and the time for jobs is now.

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