[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16457]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          A NO-JOBS AGENDA FROM A NO-SHOW REPUBLICAN CONGRESS

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, here we are 43 weeks into the current 
Congress since the Republicans took control of the House, and yet we 
have failed to pass a single bill to create jobs. Fourteen million 
Americans without jobs, many millions more are underemployed, worried 
about where their next paycheck is coming from. And yet the majority 
has continued to block and ignore a number of job-creating proposals 
advanced by Democrats, including the American Jobs Act. I renew my call 
for Speaker Boehner to bring the American Jobs Act to the House floor 
and allow the House to work its will to create jobs for the American 
people.
  The majority party will respond that there are a number of bills, but 
just by calling a bill a jobs bill doesn't make it one, such as bills 
that would increase childhood asthma and make people of all ages more 
ill by preventing our EPA from enforcing its clean water standards. The 
Dirty Water Act, again, instead of creating jobs, the bill undermines 
the Clean Water Act. It's not a zero sum game. And by damaging our 
environment and making people sick, we're not creating jobs.
  I call upon the House of Representatives to pass jobs bills now.

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