[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H32]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      AMERICA'S ECONOMIC COMEBACK

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to highlight the economic 
comeback we are seeing in Ohio and across our Nation.
  In April of 2020, before the Biden administration took office, 
America's unemployment rate was nearly 15 percent. With Democrats in 
charge, that rate is down to 3.9 percent, millions of jobs across our 
country. Under President Biden's and our Democratic Congress, we passed 
the American Rescue Plan to prevent communities, universities, 
hospitals from going bankrupt, to keep police officers and firefighters 
on the job, and put our people back to work. And indeed, last year, 
2021, 6.4 million new jobs were created across our country--an 
unprecedented number. That is a wow by any measure. And 100 percent of 
Republicans voted ``no'' on the rescue bill.
  Now, thanks to the Jobs and Infrastructure Act, Democrats just passed 
billions of dollars, and good construction jobs are going out across 
this country to rebuild roads, bridges, airports, renewable energy, 
next generation manufacturing, and keep the progress moving. And guess 
what, 94 percent of Republicans voted ``no.''
  I say thank you to the Biden administration. Thank you to the 
Democratic party for picking this country up during the worst pandemic 
in a century.

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