[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13408]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ``YES'' TO JOBS

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
shows that while 14 million Americans are looking for work, there are 
only 3 million job openings. This means that if every single job was 
filled outright, there would still be 11 million Americans unemployed 
and looking for work.
  Passing the President's jobs bill will help these people and help our 
overall economy. According to Mark Zandi, Moody's economist, the 
President's plan would add 2 percentage points to the GDP growth next 
year, add 1.9 million jobs by next year, and cut the unemployment rate 
by 1 percentage point next year.
  Published reports indicate that economists across this country are 
giving the President's plan a thumb's up. This is a clear chance for 
all of us to say ``yes''--yes to growth, yes to a middle class tax cut, 
and, most importantly, yes to jobs and our overall economy.

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