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




                                  JOBS

  (Ms. HOCHUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HOCHUL. Mr. Speaker, I come from a part of this country where my 
constituents are real down-to-earth people, commonsense people.
  We want a good education for our kids, we want Medicare and Social 
Security for our seniors, and we want the Buffalo Bills to continue 
their winning streak. But more than anything, we want to get our people 
back to work--for our kids who thought a college education was the 
ticket to a good job, for our veterans who stepped out of line to go 
fight and protect us who now find themselves in the unemployment line, 
and for middle managers who thought they were set for life until the 
day the pink slip showed up on their desk and turned their lives upside 
down.
  We all know we have to get this country back to work. We need to pass 
the American Jobs Act to do just that.
  Just 24 hours ago, Democrats and Republicans stood shoulder to 
shoulder on the steps of this Capitol, united in remembrance of 10 
years ago, the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Why can't we stand together 
again and do what's right for the American people, Democrats and 
Republicans shoulder to shoulder? If we get the job done here, people 
out there will get jobs.

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