[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3747]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            JOBS AND 99'ERS

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, the American people want to know 
where are the jobs. After 10 weeks of controlling the House, 
Republicans have no plan to create jobs, no plan to spur our economic 
growth.
  Instead of listening to the American people and making jobs their 
number one priority, Republicans passed a budget that will result in 
700,000 new layoffs. And what's the response? So be it. Taking food out 
of the mouths of hungry children by cutting WIC? So be it. Dropping 
218,000 kids from the Head Start Program? So be it. Declaring a war on 
women by eliminating family planning services and punishing the one in 
five women across America who visit a Planned Parenthood clinic? So be 
it. Denying the extension of unemployment benefits to those who've 
reached that 99-week limit and are struggling to make ends meet? So be 
it.
  And now denying homeowners to stay in their homes, the help that they 
need, by eliminating programs to prevent foreclosures? So be it.
  The Republicans No Jobs, their So Be It agenda, it's a failure on all 
counts.

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