[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Pages 28966-28967]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JOBS AND THE ECONOMY

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Madam Speaker, Democrats have been focused on helping 
Main Street, not Wall Street, and momentum continues to build for 
additional job creation legislation. The Republicans created one of the 
worst recessions in history and did very little to help a recovery. The 
Republicans exacerbated the bad economy with tax

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cuts that favored the wealthy and did very little to help working 
people. Democrats acted to save the economy from falling apart, to 
facilitate a recovery and to put people to work.
  We will build on the work we have done so far to create and save jobs 
and get this economy moving. More than half of the Recovery Act still 
must be spent into our economy, boosting it in the short term and 
laying a new foundation for long-term prosperity. New extensions of 
unemployment benefits have been taking effect that will inject demand 
into the economy. The first-time home-buyer tax credit, which has been 
extended, will be renewed in less than 2 weeks.

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