[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       THE DEMOCRATS' JOBS AGENDA

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, the agenda of this House should be jobs, 
jobs, jobs. And yet here we are in June, and the Republican leadership 
has not put forth one single jobs bill, not one single jobs bill, and 
the American people want that. The Democrats have proposed the Make It 
in America program, a Make It in America agenda that will close tax 
loopholes that encourage U.S. jobs to go overseas. It will provide 
hometown tax credits to small businesses to hire new employees and help 
sell their products and innovations overseas; to boost incentives to 
create clean energy jobs so we don't have to spend so much money with 
our military and lives protecting oil imports from the Middle East; set 
requirements for the government and its contractors to buy American 
products and services; and demand that China and other countries honor 
fair trade principles. Jobs is the agenda. The Democrats are offering a 
jobs agenda. I support it and ask the other side to come forth and try 
to help us create jobs.

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