[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12620-12621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     REPUBLICANS NOT CREATING JOBS

  (Mr. NADLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, job creation under the Bush administration 
remains disappointing, despite 3 years of economic recovery. Last month 
the economy created only 78,000 jobs. There are fewer private sector 
jobs in the United States today than there were in January 2001 when 
President Bush took office. In fact, the economy must still create an 
additional 24,000 jobs just to get back to where we were in 2001. In 
the Clinton years we created 23 million new jobs. We did not lose 
private sector jobs.
  Also on this President's watch, our economy has lost 2.8 million 
manufacturing jobs, including 7,000 more last month. The weakness of 
the job market is also showing up in the continued stagnation of 
workers' earnings.

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Today, on average, workers' hourly wages are down 1 percent from last 
year if you factor in inflation. That means workers are taking home 
less, at a time when their health care, education and gas bills are 
skyrocketing.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans had their chance to jump-start the economy. 
For 4 years they have been cutting taxes for the wealthiest few in the 
hopes that jobs and higher salaries would trickle down to the middle 
class. It has not happened.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for a new approach.

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