[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16239]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              JOB CREATION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to rise to 
indicate that we have an opportunity to be good Americans and to be the 
kind of resilient, strong, patriotic Nation that all of us love. We 
love this country.
  I gathered this morning with a group of leaders who addressed the 
question of working issues, union leaders. Every last one of them said, 
let us create jobs, jobs in America. Part of it could be passing the 
jobs bill that the President has introduced dealing with the question 
of infrastructure. One Member who was coming to the meeting said, I was 
late because of our infrastructure problems. This would create jobs, 
bring back our law enforcement, police officers and teachers, where 
classrooms are going up and up and up in size because we don't have 
enough teachers.
  And as you well know, the President has announced that we will be 
bringing home our valiant troops from Iraq, 150,000 of these young 
people that will need jobs. Let's get them in a training program where 
they have to get a stipend that will help support them, legislation 
that I have introduced.
  This last bill that I had to vote against, it's sad that we would 
take Medicaid to help our small businesses and our vendors, whereas 2 
years ago I voted on it because we used the stimulus funds to do so. 
There are many pay-fors to help small businesses, but what we need to 
do is to focus on paying and creating--paying people, Americans, so 
they can eat and put food on their table. We need to create jobs and 
stop taking money from Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
  Let's all work together, pull together, balance this budget on the 
basis of the fact that the Nation is not broke. We can do this.

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