[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16659-16660]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                REPUBLICANS ARE HOLDING UP JOB CREATION

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I want to follow up on my colleague from 
Tennessee.
  I heard my Republican colleague on the other side of the aisle talk 
about the Senate. Well, the fact of the matter is that the Senate 
Democrats, on at least two occasions, have tried to bring up the 
American Jobs Act, the President's job initiative. They even broke it 
into smaller pieces. But what happens is they vote for it, but they 
can't get the 60 votes because none of the Republicans will join with 
them to get over that 60-vote majority rule. So this is being held up 
by the Republicans.
  Here in the House, Speaker Boehner has said that he will not post the 
American Jobs Act. You know, it's been 43 weeks since the Republicans 
took control of the House and they haven't passed a single jobs bill 
yet. When the Republicans say, oh, they're passing bills to deregulate, 
that's not going to create jobs.
  I have spent a lot of time in the last few weeks going around my 
district to some of the Main Streets and talking to small businesses. 
They like the American Jobs Act because they like the fact that it has 
the payroll tax reduction. They like the various tax credits if they 
hire people. But when you ask them about regulation, regulation is not 
the issue, Mr. Speaker.

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