[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7443]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          AMERICANS NEED JOBS

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, another week has gone by in the United 
States Congress, and nothing has been done with unemployment benefits 
for unemployed workers throughout this country; 2 million to 3 million 
workers still do not have work. Thousands in the State of Ohio are 
losing their unemployment benefits every single day. And we sit here 
and we want to take pot shots at different Members of this body, 
different members of the Senate, candidates for President.
  The real issues today are people do not have any place to go to find 
work. Those people that did have work have lost their jobs, and they 
are looking for unemployment benefits to feed their families. They want 
to send their kids to school. We have no manufacturing program in this 
country. We are bleeding jobs every day.
  We better get our act together in the Congress. I think it is time 
for a change. I think we need to focus on what is most important here 
and what our job is here, and that is to take care of the American 
people.

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