[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 23 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1662]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               JOBS BILL

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, long-term unemployment has not been this 
high in this great country since World War II.
  It is time to look back in our history and see what the leaders did 
then. We can always learn from the past. In 1944, the President was 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His vision was to expand economic 
opportunity, jobs. To build the middle class, we must rebuild, and help 
them thrive, and fight inequality.
  Mr. Speaker, how about beginning with women? Today, we have more than 
50 million people--13 million of them are children--living below 
poverty in this country. We have the greatest economy in the world. 
This is absolutely shameful.
  We must adopt and be committed to the concept of full employment. 
Take up the President's American Jobs Act of 2013. Rebuild this 
country's infrastructure, invest in education, in our first responders, 
and in medical researchers. It is time to put America first and Make It 
In America.

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