[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10878]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, listening to my friend from 
Pennsylvania, I remind him as well as others that the last month of 
George Bush this country lost 780,000 jobs in 1 month. Okay? Fourteen 
months later, 15 months later we gained some 400,000 jobs in this 
country, a swing of 1,100,000 jobs per month.
  But in the process, down here in the recession after the Bush 
administration, we lost 8 million jobs. We have a long way to go to put 
those people back to work. But for Democrats, that's job number one, to 
continue to add jobs and put people back to work.
  When President Bush left it was a $1.3 trillion deficit. We know that 
we have to rein in spending, and we can begin with Iraq, by drawing 
down those troops and saving this country some real money.
  Our first job is to put people back to work, and that's what 
Democrats are going to do.

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