[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1475-1476]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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               ADVICE TO THE MAJORITY: KEEP YOUR PROMISES

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give some advice 
to the Members of the majority party. My grandmama used to tell me, 
``Son, keep your promises.''
  As we all know, the majority promised to be focused on job creation; 
but the 11 bills that have passed this body thus far, in 2 months, have 
failed to create a single job.
  Watch out for these budget cuts that these Republicans are proposing 
also. I'm going to tell you, if you are a firefighter or a police 
officer or a teacher, you are out of luck. This recovery needs to work 
for the working people of this Nation, not just for the Wall Street 
bankers.
  Today, we should be voting for investing and making products in 
America, not on toothless resolutions. If we

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continue on this path much longer, the American people will see for 
themselves that they've been lied to.
  To the majority party, you need to keep your promises and stop 
shrinking the middle class. You need to be about job creation like you 
promised. Don't turn America into a pink slip Nation.

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