[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7036]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, we've been here for about 5 months so far. 
It's easing up on June. It won't be long until it's summertime. Yet, 
Mr. Speaker, the Republican majority has not brought a single bill to 
create a single job.
  I was very pleased to hear the gentlewoman from North Carolina say 
that they are marking up a bill on jobs. It would be the first one, if 
it ever gets here. That's a shame, because I think when people voted 
last November, they were thinking, hey, we've got to do something about 
some jobs. And yet the Republican majority has dallied away and done 
everything but work on jobs.
  Yeah, they've tried to take away the Affordable Care Act and take 
away health care from people who really need it. Yeah, they've tried to 
do a whole lot of things, push a social agenda. They've done all these 
things, but they have yet to focus on the one thing that Americans need 
most, which is a job.
  If you want to reduce the deficit, you've got to have people making 
some money, and that means getting some jobs. People pay taxes. People 
would love to pay taxes, but they would do it if they had work. But 
they don't have work because our Republican majority has got other 
things to do.
  Remember, jobs are the key. I am looking forward to Republicans 
bringing a bill to the floor.

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