[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             TIME TO STOP POLITICAL GAMES AND WORK TOGETHER

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, right now Californians in my home district 
face an almost 14 percent unemployment rate and are dealing with the 
fourth highest rate of foreclosures in the Nation.
  What my constituents need above all else is for both of us, 
Republicans and Democrats, to come together on creating new jobs. Yet 
in the last 18 weeks the Republicans have controlled the House, they 
have yet to bring one single bill focused on creating jobs. Instead, 
they have put forward a partisan agenda that is more about scoring 
political points than helping American families.
  We should be putting American families back to work. We should not be 
voting to dismantle safety nets for seniors and vulnerable Americans. 
The Republican attacks on Medicare and Medicaid go against our core 
values and threaten the health care of 44 million low-income Americans.
  It is time to stop political games. Let's work together, and I say 
let's work together and focus on straightening out our economy and 
creating jobs.

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