[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17704]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               JOBS FAIR

  (Mr. REICHERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, we've heard some of the partisan comments 
this morning, and I think America is tired of that. America needs jobs 
now, and they're looking at us to work together.
  There's been a lot of discussion and debate around job creation and 
economic recovery--rightly so. But I believe we all want to put America 
back to work, Democrats and Republicans together. We all want that. We 
must work together now to make that happen. Just because we have 
different ideas doesn't mean we can't work together.
  Adam Smith and I, both from Washington State, in fact, next week will 
be putting together a jobs fair that we call Helping Identify Real 
Employment in America. We're going to do that together, a Democrat and 
a Republican. There will be 75-plus different vendors, different 
businesses who have jobs, actually have jobs waiting. We're going to 
match employees with employers, bring them together so they can find 
jobs. And our hope is that before Christmas, before Thanksgiving, Adam 
Smith and I can get some people back to work and energize their 
families and help energize our community.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of us in this House to do the same--work 
together to identify jobs.

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