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




                              PROTECT JOBS

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, we've been talking about jobs, and we've 
been talking about our economy and how jobs relate to that. We must 
remember one thing: We are all workers. So, Mr. Speaker, one of the 
things that's very troubling is the fact that we don't seem to have a 
grasp on what the role of the National Labor Relations Board is. That's 
evidenced by H.R. 2587. What the National Labor Relations Board does is 
simply enforces the rights of workers. We are a great economy and we 
are a great country because we recognize that we are all workers and 
that as workers we have rights to be protected. One of the rights is to 
act in a concerted manner. And that's what this is all about. It 
protects people's rights to act together if they so wish. Now what is 
wrong with that? That's what makes us the United States of America. 
That's what makes us the greatest economy of the world. And that's what 
makes us a country that understands that in order to be a great 
economy, we must never forget the workers. We must never forget their 
rights. And we must always protect them.

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