[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 135 (Tuesday, September 13, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H6105-H6106]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             GOOD JOBS NOW

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, today, members of the Progressive Caucus 
stood up and displayed a videotape in

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which the jobs tour that we went on this summer was revealed. We showed 
the cities where Americans of all description stood up and said, We 
need jobs, good jobs, now. Americans from Detroit to Oakland and 
Minneapolis, Miami, all over this country, we went to talk to them 
face-to-face, and they told us what they wanted. They did their part by 
coming to tell us what they wanted.
  Now it's time for us to do our part as Congress. Members of the 
Progressive Caucus will and are and already have introduced legislation 
dealing with good jobs--and good jobs now--in infrastructure, 
education, fair trade, and things like manufacturing. We're going to be 
forcing this agenda. It's what the American people expect, what they 
demand. And anyone who does not stand with us on this jobs agenda will 
be revealed to be not a friend of the American worker.

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