[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1474-1475]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS. Here we are, it's mid-February. The Republicans took 
control. They won the election in November on an agenda of trying to 
create jobs for the American people. Two months into after being sworn 
in, here we are now--still haven't created a job. We haven't put a 
single bill on the floor of the House of Representatives to create jobs 
for the American people. With over 9 percent unemployment--among 
African Americans, 16 percent unemployment--communities across this 
country hemorrhaging, corporations in this country sitting on $2 
trillion in cash--and still no jobs.
  So what are the Republicans doing instead? Here's what they're trying 
to do. They're trying to further restrict a woman's right to choose--
not creating jobs, but want to get in the middle of your doctor's 
office to restrict your right to choose. Hours and hours of debate to 
direct committees to oversee regulations. Well, that's our job, to 
oversee the regulatory process. We don't need hours of debate to give 
us permission to oversee the regulatory process. Still no jobs.
  What else are the Republicans doing? They're reviewing, reviewing. 
Well, that's safe. What do we have to review? Our job, of course, is to 
review. But our job is to create jobs for the American people. That's 
what they expected out

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of the election. That's what we need to deliver them.

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