[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 15, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H239-H240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Mr. MULLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MULLIN. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the American 
Dream. Our country is the land of entrepreneurs. We get up every 
morning, put our boots on, and go to work. Americans should have the 
opportunity to have a good job and a good life rather than develop a 
life of dependency on unemployment.
  As a business owner, I don't want my company to simply maintain the 
status

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quo. In the business community, if you don't grow, you die. So why 
would we want to keep our country at the status quo?
  If we only focus on maintaining our current unemployment structure 
and we don't focus on job creation, we simply are admitting we don't 
want to grow. The goal should be to provide a way forward for people, 
not keep them on government assistance even longer. We need to focus on 
ways to combat joblessness.
  Let's rein in overreaching regulations that are killing jobs. Let's 
grow the private sector. Let's grow the energy sector, and let's 
approve the Keystone pipeline. The result will be the creation of 
private sector jobs and living above the status quo.

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