[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1599]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        LOST PUBLIC SECTOR JOBS

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, both sides of the aisle agree that the top 
three priorities for this Congress are jobs, jobs, jobs. But when you 
look at what the new majority wants to do with the Federal budget, you 
really have to wonder, are they serious?
  Now in the private sector, we've actually seen job growth for the 
last 12 months, 36,000 more jobs last month. But we've lost hundreds of 
thousands of public sector jobs. And what should be of most concern to 
all Americans is that since 2008, more than 200,000 public sector jobs 
in the education arena--primarily teachers--have been lost; and at that 
very same time, student enrollment has gone up by 750,000 students. So 
you lose 200,000 educators while student enrollment goes up 750,000? 
That's our seed corn for our future. And what's going to happen with 
this new budget that we will be debating next week is that it is going 
to be far worse than anything we could have imagined, and that will 
hurt the future of this great country.

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