[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13410]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HOW TO CREATE JOBS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Last week, the President came to this House and gave an 
historic address in a joint session about the American Jobs Act. There 
were things in his proposal that I felt really good about and some that 
I felt not so good about. But I'm going to support the President 
because our country needs jobs. People in my district need jobs. This 
is the way to provide jobs.
  You don't provide jobs by putting off EPA regulations, costing 
350,000 lives by causing people to have breathing difficulties and 
asthma. Two friends of mine have had lung cancer and lost a lung. They 
may lose their life without a transplant, which also may put them in 
jeopardy of losing their lives. That's not the way you create jobs. You 
create jobs by giving people opportunities with summer youth programs 
and infrastructure jobs that create even more jobs. And tax breaks for 
small business. That's been offered. I hope we can come together in a 
bipartisan way.
  I watched the Republican debate last night, and one of the candidates 
suggested it was the ``Obama depression.'' I can't believe people are 
doing that. We just saw 9/11 and thought of the horrors. The unfunded 
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused this Bush recession.

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