[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  JOBS ARE COMING BACK IN OUR ECONOMY

  (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, in this very negative bitter 
political year, we hear a lot of negative stories. I want to talk about 
something that is good that is happening in America, and that is jobs 
are coming back in our economy.
  If you take a look at what is happening in this economy, our U.S. 
economy is growing at the fastest rate it has grown in 20 years. We 
have added 1.4 million jobs in economy since last August alone.
  In my home State of Wisconsin, where we are so dependent on 
manufacturing jobs, we are seeing a great recovery in manufacturing. 
Over 3,000 jobs just last month alone in high paid manufacturing jobs, 
almost 12,000 jobs in total alone last month in the State of Wisconsin.
  So what is happening is the tax cuts that passed a year ago, the good 
economic policies that have been put in place, the seeds that were 
planted are bearing fruit and we are now on the road to an economic 
recovery. Yes, everyone who lost a job has not yet found one, but the 
good news is the fastest growth in 20 years, over a million jobs 
created within a year, we are on record pace to earn back and build 
back the jobs that we lost and that is good news for America.

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