[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15243]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                                  JOBS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Some few weeks ago, the President addressed this Congress 
in this Chamber about jobs and introduced the American Jobs Act. 
Something that would help small businesses, something that would help 
put policemen and firemen and teachers to work, something that would 
help rebuild schools, a bill that would appropriately put Americans 
back to work and address our problems, but the Senate killed it 
yesterday. We should have known, and we did know the Senate would kill 
it because Senator McConnell said right after the President was sworn 
in: Our main job is to see that he's not reelected.
  The President is in support of these trade agreements. I'm not; he 
is. The Republicans are, but they don't give him credit for it. They 
condemn him today, the previous speaker, and yet he's for the trade 
agreements. He couldn't do anything for them. If he made them a kidney 
transplant, they'd want two. There's nothing he could do they'd think 
was right.
  We need to create jobs. It's the main issue in my district and in 
this Nation. We need to work together to create jobs in America, and 
the millionaires need to pay their fair share.

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