[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 192 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H8914]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REBUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR THE 99% ACT

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Members of the Congressional 
Progressive Caucus introduced an important bill, and it's called the 
``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act.'' This bill, this 
important ``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act,'' would create 
5 million jobs, Mr. Speaker, over 2 years, and cut the deficit by $2 
trillion over 10 years.
  The ``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act'' creates direct-
hire programs to put Americans back to work; provides grants for on-
the-job training and employment services; invests $50 billion for 
infrastructure projects; creates a national infrastructure bank; 
improves ``buy American'' provisions; ends the practice of foreign 
currency manipulation; protects wounded veterans from job 
discrimination; extends unemployment insurance, including for people at 
99 weeks; and supports the TANF emergency contingency fund to help 
States pay for the cost of hiring unemployed workers. We can do these 
things. The ``Rebuild the American Dream Act for the 99% Act'' does it.

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