[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 152 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H6795]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, last night I was disappointed, although not 
surprised, to see the Senate fail to arrive at the number of votes 
needed to bring cloture so that the American Jobs Act could be debated. 
They not only don't want to pass the jobs bill, they don't even want to 
debate the jobs bill. I thought that was an embarrassing moment for the 
U.S. Congress because, with 9.1 percent unemployment, with people who 
have been chronically unemployed for so long, one would think that we'd 
want to get down here and talk about jobs, bring forth our ideas, offer 
amendments, and do everything we could to try to help spur the American 
economy on. And yet we saw that jobs bill go down.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people know that Congress can bring things 
up, and they can bring things up again. And as long as Americans are 
unemployed at the disgraceful rates that they are today, our Congress 
will never stop fighting to continue to bring jobs bills back to this 
Congress.
  The Republican majority in this House has yet to bring a jobs bill. 
We hope to see one one day soon.

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