[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7037-7038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, we've been waiting for 17

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weeks for the Republican majority to bring to the floor a jobs bill. I 
voted against the recess 2 weeks ago because I believe we ought to stay 
here until we get our job done, which is to create jobs for the 
American people. What's the majority doing? Last week, they tried 
restricting a woman's right to choose. Then they attacked health 
insurance protections. This week, they're trying to repeal commonsense 
protections that prevent oil spills. Jobs? Nowhere to be found.
  Last week, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer unveiled Make it in America. 
My Build America Bonds legislation is part of that agenda. In the last 
2 years, every dollar invested in Build America Bonds leveraged $41 in 
private sector funds, or $181 billion to construct and repair schools 
and build bridges and roads in every State in America. These 
infrastructure improvements created hundreds of thousands of jobs. 
That's what we need to focus on--not an ideological agenda.

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