[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                      VETERANS' UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, before I comment on why I am 
standing next to the brave and the true of our United States military, 
let me give a message to Syria and express my outrage over the heinous 
killing of a 13-year-old boy. President Assad should be held 
accountable now. And the United Nations needs to voice its opposition. 
As the Secretary of State has indicated, we need to be standing 
alongside those seeking freedom in Syria.
  And to our allies in Bahrain, where our fleet of Navy personnel are, 
what a disgrace that they have imploded and blown up mosques because 
they disagree with their particular faith. This is the Arab Spring, but 
it will end in devastation if we don't stand for truth and human rights 
and compassion.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I think it is important, as I stand next to the 
brave men and women, some who have fallen, and those who now still 
fight, to ask my Republican friends do you understand that there is a 
10 percent unemployment among those who are coming back from Iraq and 
Afghanistan? Yes, troops who are fighting for us and fighting on our 
behalf. Yet it has been 21 weeks and the Republicans have no jobs 
agenda. We need jobs. Create jobs! If you believe in these troops, 
build jobs for the American people.

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