[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15422]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         SUPPORTING EDUCATION JOBS AND MEDICAID ASSISTANCE ACT

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Madam Speaker, I don't know why my colleagues on 
the other side have problems with the bill we came back to pass today. 
I guess it's because it helps poor and middle class people.
  The Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act will save or create 
310,000 jobs in this country: the teachers our children need as they 
return to school, policemen, firefighters, and others who keep us safe, 
and nurses who provide us tender loving care when we need it most. It 
increases Medicaid so more poor families can get health care. If this 
is a special interest bill as they are telling the American people, 
then those are the kinds of special interests Democrats have and will 
always have: people who need our help to go to work every day and take 
care of their families.
  Republicans would rather continue tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 
percent of people and support corporations who take jobs and send them 
overseas which would only increase the deficit their policies created 
in the first place.
  This bill is paid for and will reduce the deficit by $1.4 billion and 
is just another example of Democrats being responsible with our 
country's finances and responsive to the needs of our constituents. And 
their opposition is another example of Republicans misleading the 
people and trying to take us back to the same failed Republican 
policies that got us in the ditch in the first place.

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