[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6473]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, the American people want to know, Where are the 
jobs?
  After 17 weeks of controlling the House, Republicans have no plan to 
create jobs and no plan to spur economic growth. Instead, they proposed 
a budget that puts our country on a road to ruin. They want to end 
Medicare, gut Medicaid, strip funding for Pell Grants and elementary 
and secondary education for our students, while hobbling our Nation's 
transportation infrastructure.
  Yet again this week, Republicans are offering slogans instead of 
solutions: ``Drill Baby Drill,'' ``Kill the Bill.'' These slogans don't 
amount to a plan to create jobs or guarantee access to health care in 
America.
  Instead of another very cynical attempt to repeal health reform and 
perpetrate their war on women, and instead of offering oil companies 
free reign off our coasts, we should be working together to help the 
unemployed and to create jobs. We must not forget the 99ers and we must 
help them, people who have moved out of their unemployment benefits. 
They've actually maxed out. And we must invest in our country to 
stimulate job creation.
  Democrats have a plan while Republicans can only offer rhetoric.

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