[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       PRESIDENT OBAMA'S AMERICA

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Madam Speaker, welcome to President Obama's 
America: where labor force participation rates are the lowest since 
1978; where good-paying jobs are scarce; where many health insurance 
premiums are skyrocketing or being canceled; where jobs bills sent to 
the Senate collect dust on Harry Reid's desk; where the State 
Department concluded that the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline poses 
little environmental risk, yet the President has not approved it; where 
yesterday the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report 
stating that ObamaCare will have substantially larger negative effects 
on the economy than anticipated.
  The CBO projects the number of full-time workers to fall by 2.3 
million, while increasing financial burdens on our children and 
grandchildren.
  I urge the President: use that pen to approve House-passed jobs 
bills; use that phone to work with Congress, and let's work together to 
relieve the burden that so many of your policies have placed on the 
backs of the American people.

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