[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                JOBS, WALL STREET AND HEALTH CARE REFORM

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I represent the most unique city on the 
planet, the City of Las Vegas. It's a great place with great people, 
but we are hurting, and my constituents are angry.
  I've got the second highest unemployment rate in the country, the 
highest mortgage foreclosure rate in the country, and 460,000 Nevadans 
have no health insurance. The stimulus bill saved our State--money for 
education and Medicaid, unemployment compensation, job creation, 
infrastructure improvements--but we need to do more. We need to pass a 
jobs bill to get more people back to work. We need to pass health care 
reform to provide medical care for those who can't afford it on their 
own.
  Finally, for the financial industry, whose reckless behavior put this 
Nation and the rest of the world in a deep recession, Congress must 
past meaningful Wall Street reform and consumer protection. I know we 
talk all the time about Wall Street's being a casino. Coming from Las 
Vegas and representing Las Vegas, let me assure you no casino on the 
planet behaves as irresponsibly and as recklessly as Wall Street does. 
Wall Street ought to be ashamed and should take a lesson from the 
casino industry.

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