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




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                             GOOD JOBS NOW

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, today, members of the Progressive Caucus 
stood up and displayed a videotape in which the jobs tour that we went 
on this summer was revealed. We showed the cities where Americans of 
all description stood up and said, We need jobs, good jobs, now. 
Americans from Detroit to Oakland and Minneapolis, Miami, all over this 
country, we went to talk to them face-to-face, and they told us what 
they wanted. They did their part by coming to tell us what they wanted.
  Now it's time for us to do our part as Congress. Members of the 
Progressive Caucus will and are and already have introduced legislation 
dealing with good jobs--and good jobs now--in infrastructure, 
education, fair trade, and things like manufacturing. We're going to be 
forcing this agenda. It's what the American people expect, what they 
demand. And anyone who does not stand with us on this jobs agenda will 
be revealed to be not a friend of the American worker.

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