[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            JUNE JOBS REPORT

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, yes, the June jobs report is not 
encouraging: 18,000 jobs added. But I cannot ever forget that it was 
January 2009 when we lost 741,000 jobs, the last month of the Bush 
Presidency.
  Under President Obama, we have added jobs, and, of course, we have 
not added enough; but they have been adding. But the American people 
should know that we need about 150,000 jobs a month in order to push 
the unemployment rate down. Because we added jobs but not enough, the 
unemployment rate has gone up.
  But the most important thing for the American people to know is that 
the Republican promise to make jobs the first agenda during the 
election has not been fulfilled. They have yet to introduce or pass 
through this House one single jobs bill, not one. All they have done is 
cut jobs, mostly by going after public employees. And this is what the 
American people need to bear in mind as they think about who is on 
their side.

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