[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3149]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             NO JOBS BILLS

  (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, well, here we are. It's 8 weeks into the 
112th Congress and still not a single Republican proposal to create 
jobs and strengthen our economy. No jobs proposals and no jobs.
  Instead, we have a series of reports stating really clearly that the 
Republicans' slash-and-burn budgets would eliminate jobs, hundreds of 
thousands of them, and send our economy spiraling back into recession. 
Even Goldman Sachs says that the Republican continuing resolution would 
depress economic growth by 2 percent and raise unemployment by 1 
percent. Mark Zandi, the economist, notes that this slash-and-burn idea 
of spending would cost our country 700,000 jobs.
  So here we are again, 8 weeks into the new leadership, and all we get 
is negative growth and job loss.
  So, Mr. Speaker, where are my colleagues? They need to get serious 
about creating jobs, strengthening our economy, and ensuring long-term 
growth for our children and grandchildren.
  I would urge us to get together, House Democrats, Senate Democrats, 
and Republicans, in a good-faith effort to pass a funding bill for the 
remainder of the year that really guarantees our future and creates 
jobs for our economy. The American people cannot afford to see our 
economy sliding backwards.

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