[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             CREATING JOBS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, many of us will be paying 
tribute to those who lost their lives on 9-11. But I rise today to 
speak of the continuing plight of the unemployed in this Nation.
  On this past Monday, I held an economic forum on the unemployed in my 
congressional district. Houston, Texas has an unemployment rate of 7.2 
percent. It is in the top 5 States of the Nation. And the striking 
factor of that particular session was the pain of those chronically 
unemployed.
  The very fact that the large corporations that have received these 
very enormous tax cuts by this administration has done nothing to 
retain jobs or to create jobs. It is imperative that we work with the 
Department of Labor and this Congress to insist upon incentives to be 
given to large corporations on the basis only of them retaining or 
creating jobs. We have ceased to become a power in manufacturing and we 
are not hiring or creating the opportunity for jobs for recent 
graduates, for working students, and/or for those individuals trying to 
support their families. This is intolerable and it is not reflective of 
the intelligence and opportunity that we represent in this country.
  Corporations and this Nation must turn their eyes toward creating 
jobs.

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