[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 137 (Thursday, September 15, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           PASS THE JOBS ACT

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. I am very worried about our country. Democrats and 
our President are calling on the Congress to pass the Jobs Act so that 
our fellow Americans who have been unemployed can go back to work; so 
that teachers, firemen, and police can keep their jobs; so that those 
whose incomes have dropped will have a little more money to spend on 
their families; so that our children will have schools that show we 
care about them; and so that struggling small businesses will get the 
help they need.
  Building the political will to do this requires not only patriotism; 
it requires compassion. After watching the Tea Party debate, where the 
audience and some candidates indicated an uninsured person should be 
left to die and where there was loud applause for capital punishment, I 
wonder if we can still feel another's pain.
  This calls out to the good people that I know who remain the majority 
in this country to do more, to speak louder to drown out the voice of 
hate, and to renew and strengthen the values that have always made the 
United States of America the greatest country in the world.
  We are commanded to love our neighbor. As my pastor preached last 
Sunday, if we do, we will not wish our neighbors ill or do them harm.

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