[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10878]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                JOBS, OFFSHORING PREVENTION ACT OF 2011

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Speaker, last week's jobs report showing an 
unemployment rate going in the wrong direction from 9.1 percent to 9.2 
percent underscores the urgent need to focus on policies in this House 
that help create jobs and grow the economy.
  Part of that agenda should be the passage of the Offshoring 
Prevention Act of 2011, which I introduced last week. At a time when we 
should be working to restore our manufacturing sector, we are 
undermining it because our Tax Code actually rewards companies that 
send manufacturing jobs overseas.
  The Offshoring Prevention Act will close the tax loophole that allows 
this to happen. It has been 27 weeks since the majority party took 
control of this House, and they have done nothing to create jobs. They 
haven't even brought a single jobs bill to the House floor.
  While they have been stalling on the most important priority for our 
country, Democrats have put forth our jobs agenda, the Make It in 
America agenda, which will help rebuild our manufacturing base, invest 
in policies that keep good-paying jobs here in America, and allow us to 
compete in the global economy.
  Madam Speaker, this is the kind of legislation we should be pursuing 
here in this House. Sensible legislation that helps our recovering 
economy, helps us compete in the global marketplace, and puts Americans 
back to work.

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