[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16659]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CALLING ON SENATE TO PASS JOBS BILL

  (Mr. MULVANEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Speaker, last week, unbeknownst to most people 
because it doesn't get a lot of coverage, we did something in this 
House that most people in the Nation didn't think we had the capability 
of doing. We passed, on a bipartisan basis, a bill that will help put 
people back to work. We passed a bill that made it easier for companies 
that do business with the Federal Government to get paid, the 3 percent 
withholding rule. It passed through subcommittee on a bipartisan basis, 
through committee on a bipartisan basis, and off of the floor of this 
House on a bipartisan basis. It is actually part of the President's 
jobs plan--the President directly addresses this 3 percent withholding 
in his jobs bill--yet it got absolutely no attention. More importantly, 
it sits today at the Senate with absolutely no activity on it.
  This House, Mr. Speaker, has done its job, and we've done our job on 
a bipartisan basis to pass a bill to put people back to work. But the 
Senators--most specifically, the Democrat leadership in the Senate--are 
not doing their job, and I call upon them to do exactly that.

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