[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SEND YOUR RESUMES

  (Mr. JACKSON of Illinois asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JACKSON of Illinois. Madam Speaker, as we enter 2011, we find 
ourselves in the same jobs situation as in 2010. In order to show the 
huge need for jobs, I will be collecting resumes from Americans who are 
unemployed or underemployed. I'll submit them for the Congressional 
Record. Unfortunately, submitting these resumes for the Record will not 
get anybody a job.
  By collecting these resumes, I hope to dramatize the shameful 
condition of unemployment and compel Congress to do something about it. 
I hope to remind my colleagues every day that we work for those 
Americans who have been left behind but who want to work.
  Today, I call on my fellow Americans to send me your resume and your 
story to resumesforA[email protected]. 
ResumesforA[email protected]. If you are out of work, send me your 
resume and story so that I can use it to remind our government of the 
need to act.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: America has issued us a bad check. 
It has come back marked ``insufficient funds.'' But the vault of 
opportunity of this Nation is not bankrupt.
  Madam Speaker, sending a resume to me will not put you first in line 
for any job, but it will put you up front and center to remind our 
government of the need to act.

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