[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14169]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       PASS THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT

  (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARBANES. Madam Speaker, I want to commend the President for the 
American Jobs Act. This bill gets squarely behind the program of 
putting our country back to work and rebuilding the Nation.
  As you go around and you talk to people, Americans understand 
implicitly that we have to rebuild this country and make it strong. 
That means a lot of things, but, first and foremost, it means investing 
in our infrastructure, rebuilding our bridges, tunnels, and highways; 
and this bill would put resources towards that task, investing in human 
capital, education, innovation, technology, entrepreneurship. This bill 
would make sure that teachers go back to work so they can teach our 
young people in the classroom, investing in strong communities.
  This bill would support resources for our firefighters, put more 
police officers out there on the beat. That's investing in communities. 
We have to rebuild this country. The American Jobs Act does that. Let's 
pass the American Jobs Act, put this country back to work.

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