[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 5, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6569]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, last week I had the pleasure 
of visiting small businesses that created jobs, anyone from doctors who 
worked 7 days in their office to companies who could sell anything to 
anybody to a beauty school that had people who were trying to be 
independent contractors; they created jobs. And I'm going to talk about 
them in the weeks to come.
  So I'm begging, I'm begging this bipartisan House to put the American 
Jobs Act on the floor. That's because the GOP, of course, for 39 weeks 
has put one bill after another. One put off or destroyed 700,000 jobs. 
That was the spending bill. Another, about the Patient Bill of Rights, 
destroyed 300,000 jobs.
  But 65 percent of Americans say we want jobs. They're at First and 
Independence right now. They're down at Wall Street. They're on Main 
Street. They're telling us, we want jobs. We want our teachers back, 
our firefighters back, we want our police back. We want to rebuild our 
schools. We need payroll tax relief so our small businesses can hire 
someone else. We want J-O-B-S. it's a simple point.
  Put the American Jobs Act on the floor. Listen to the American 
people, the people in Wall Street that are arrested, 700 of them are 
crying out in pain. Let's respond to the American people. That is our 
job.

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