[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                URGING SENATE ACTION ON JOBS LEGISLATION

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, it's time for the other body 
to act.
  The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has a plan for 
putting Americans back to work. We've moved on more than 20 pieces of 
legislation that now sit idly in the other body. We have provisions 
that will empower small businesses--the great job creators of America. 
We have provisions that will fix the Tax Code to help create jobs. We 
have provisions that will help manufacturing to have jobs in America, 
not overseas. We have provisions that will encourage entrepreneurship 
and growth and maximize American energy production. And all of these 
measures sit over in the other body.
  I call on the leadership of the other body and all Members to get 
this legislation moving forward. There are millions of people without 
jobs, and they need us to act not later but now.
  And finally, I call on them to help finalize a 4\1/2\-year-old, with 
more than 21 extensions, FAA bill that still languishes. It's time to 
stop the nonsense and get America back to work.
  Let's pass these bills held hostage.

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