[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17986]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, when the liberal Democrat extremists took 
control of the Congress in 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.6 percent, 
and when Republicans took back control of the House in January of 2011, 
the unemployment rate had jumped to 9 percent. Under liberal Democrat 
control, 6.9 million Americans became unemployed. So now we have 13.9 
million unemployed Americans who have been ignored by the liberals in 
Washington.
  Higher taxes, record spending, and bigger government have failed to 
create jobs or boost economic growth. Put simply, this economy is 
growing too slowly to replace the millions of jobs lost. GDP growth in 
the first quarter of 2011 fell to 1.8 percent; in the second quarter it 
was 1.3 percent.
  The failure of the President's runaway spending, deficits and debt is 
being felt by every family struggling to put food on the table and pay 
their mortgage.
  Instead of expanding the size of government, Republicans in 
Washington are committed to a pro-growth economic agenda that will put 
America back to work. And I urge people to go to America's job 
creators, jobs.gop.gov, to see the plan Republicans have to create 
jobs. We've passed over 20 bills that have gone to the Senate, and no 
action is being taken on them.

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