[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4330]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STRENGTHENING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to support strengthening the 
American economy. How? To keep on task creating living-wage jobs for 
America's workers to lift them into the middle class and to clamp down 
on billionaires and tax cheats who don't pay their fair share of taxes 
to balance our budget to keep our economy growing.
  If you look at what the United Auto Workers are fighting for as we 
are here on the floor today, they are fighting for what they have 
worked for. They deserve decent wages.
  The August jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 
reports 178,000 more jobs were added nationally.
  This is a time of very high job growth in our country, and 
unemployment is at a near-historic low. Employers in Ohio and across 
our country have job openings and are hiring, but wages have to go up 
now, and not only for billionaire owners and financiers. They are not 
the only ones that should benefit, but the people doing the work--the 
autoworkers, the waitresses, the tech workers, the people across our 
country who work in supermarkets.
  Madam Speaker, please heal your troubled, divided party. Bring us 
together. Let's not stall out American progress. Let's grow the economy 
and pay our bills through growth.

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