[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 136 (Wednesday, September 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6150]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           AMERICAN JOBS ACT

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Speaker and Members, jobs are the 
issue, and the American Jobs Act is the solution that this House should 
consider on the floor immediately. This bill will help reverse the flow 
of jobs overseas and will help rebuild the manufacturing base in 
America, providing good jobs for hardworking Americans.
  Make It In America creates jobs in America. This bill builds America. 
The long-term FAA reauthorization will create 150,000 jobs, and 
reauthorizing the surface transportation bill will support 134,000 
projects around the country, 5,000 mass transit projects, and nearly 1 
million jobs over the next year. The national infrastructure bank 
proposal would combine public and private resources to build, rebuild, 
and repair the country's key infrastructure.
  This bill also helps create jobs through the Tax Code. The proposal 
cuts the payroll tax in half for 98 percent of businesses on their 
first $5 million in payroll; it offers a $4,000 tax credit to employers 
for hiring long-term unemployed workers--get them on the tax rolls and 
not on the unemployment rolls--and it starts a ``Returning Heroes'' 
hiring tax credit, between $5,600 and $9,600 for firms that hire 
unemployed veterans.
  We have the responsibility to help our country climb out of this 
tough economy, and this bill is a proposal that deserves bipartisan 
support to help accomplish that.

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