[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 19, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H1576-H1577]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ADDRESSING OUR UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS

  (Ms. WILSON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it's now been 807 days since I 
arrived in Congress to address jobs, and the Republican leadership has 
still not allowed a single vote on serious legislation to address our 
unemployment crisis. More than 12 million American families do not have 
the luxury of waiting on this issue. They are devastated. There are 
five students in my

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district who graduated from Harvard in 2011, and they're still looking 
for work. Think of the lost talent.
  It's time for Congress to understand that unemployment is an urgent 
national crisis. It results in lost tax revenue, higher government 
expenditures, and unbearable levels of human suffering.
  Mr. Speaker, our real deficit is unemployment. Let's eliminate this 
true deficit by bringing the President's American Jobs Act to the floor 
for a vote. It deserves a vote.
  Mr. Speaker, our mantra should be: jobs, jobs, jobs.

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