[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6381]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, we are being told today by our friends, 
the Democrats, to trust Washington and to trust them. Yet the Obama-
Pelosi legislation which passed this House earlier last year promised 
that, if Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package, national 
unemployment would never rise above 8 percent. Today, the national 
unemployment is 9.7 percent and is hovering near a 25-year high.
  I think it is time for the American people to recognize that the 
answers do not all reside here in Washington, D.C., but that we need to 
take care of our business. Our business should not be about trying to 
do a lot of things to a lot of other people but to focus on jobs for 
this country. Jobs are the number one issue. Jobs are the things which 
will spur the American entrepreneurship and the creativity that will 
allow us to be competitive with the world.
  Where are the jobs?

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