[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2899]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 WILL WE CONTINUE TO GROW OUR ECONOMY?

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, a 2-week extension to fund the government 
may prevent a shutdown, but it will not change the fact that a serious 
choice lies before this Congress.
  Will 2011 be a year in which we continue to grow our economy, a year 
that builds on the over 1 million private sector jobs created in 2010, 
or will it be remembered as the year extremists ignored the warnings of 
world-class economists at Moody's Analytics and Goldman Sachs and 
allowed our economy to shrink by over 700,000 jobs?
  Will 2011 be a year in which we prepare America's children to compete 
in a global economy, or will it be the year that right-wing extremists 
and Congress defied common sense, cutting Pell Grants, blaming teachers 
for the deficit, and punishing struggling school districts across 
America for a financial crisis they did not cause?
  In 2 weeks, these choices will once again come before this Congress. 
I implore the Republican leadership to seize this opportunity, not for 
partisan gain but for America's gain. Let's reduce the deficit in a way 
that does not jeopardize our recovery and make 2011 a year we move 
forward instead of backwards.

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