[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17552]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTESTS

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, 8 days from now is Thanksgiving. We're 
all going to sit down to a nice plump turkey and enjoy ourselves.
  Well, not everybody. All across this Nation, we're seeing people 
protest. They're young people, middle-aged people, and older people--
even parents with kids--and these folks are mad. They're seeing Wall 
Street companies profit after getting us into the economic mess we 
have; and, at the same time, they're among the millions of people in 
this country who are unemployed, that are still without a job. There 
are four people looking for every job out there. It's not easy. And 
Congress, the Republicans, are sitting on their hands again. We're 
coming up to the end of the year.
  I want my Republican colleagues to take notice: If you continue to 
push the unemployed and struggling Americans and, instead, focus on tax 
breaks for corporations and the wealthy, the Occupy movement will be in 
your districts, on your doorsteps next November. Unemployment benefits 
should be extended immediately.

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