[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6626]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           WHEN WILL THE REPUBLICANS WORK ON RESTORING JOBS?

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning with a question, which 
is: What are we doing? What are we doing here? Like all 434 of my 
colleagues, I just spent 2 weeks at home listening to my constituents, 
and I heard one message: Do everything you can. Don't let a second go 
by. Work to restore jobs in this country. Improve the economy.
  And I get down here on Monday, and what did we do this week? We voted 
in this Chamber to eliminate funding for school-based health centers, 
funding for kids who don't have any other way to see a doctor. Today, 
thanks to the Republican majority, we will vote to try to scale back 
the right of women to have access to reproductive health care. And 
later on this week, we are going to take up measures that will keep the 
gravy train flowing to the oil companies, the $4 billion in our 
taxpayer money that goes to companies like ExxonMobil, which last week 
reported $10 billion in profits. I'm glad ExxonMobil is making money, 
but you know what? They don't need ours.
  So what are we doing? When is the Republican majority going to get 
serious about the one thing that my constituents care about--jobs?

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