[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1595-1596]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JOBS AND THE ECONOMY

  (Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, during the State of the Union 
message last month, the President reminded us that he inherited a true 
economic mess and that job losses have

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been reduced dramatically due to actions by the Democrats in this 
Congress and his administration.
  At the end of the Bush years in January 2009, 800,000 Americans lost 
their jobs. But by contrast, after just 1 year of economic recovery 
policies from Democrats in this Congress and President Obama, 20,000 
people lost their jobs in January 2010.
  Make no mistake, any jobs lost are important to the people who have 
lost them. But we're on the road to recovery.
  The philosophy that ``a rising tide lifts all boats,'' though, does 
have its limitations. So we need an economic and industrial policy in 
this country that creates jobs for the future for the long term and to 
put those who are newly unemployed and the chronically unemployed back 
to work. In short, we need to embrace our clean energy future for 
sustained job creation, economic growth and innovation, and let's use 
our taxpayer dollars to buy American, to build American.

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