[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11010-11011]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to stand this 
morning and simply ask the question, where are the jobs, and why have 
we been here for some 27 weeks and we have not been able to say to the 
American people we are on your side?
  Let me deviate for a moment and say the debt ceiling that has 
consumed us is a procedural matter that has occurred over the years and 
decades of Presidents, Republicans and Democrats. And so let's not 
castigate President Obama and say a deal would not be made because he 
is here. Let's look at ways of finding jobs.
  The energy industry, for example, has a program that says veterans to 
jobs, energy jobs. Let's have youth to jobs, 18-35, energy jobs, and 
begin to create the jobs that Democrats have been fighting for, putting 
on the floor of the House, job creation.

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  Let's have the energy industry broadly look at a tax structure that 
is responsible and invests back in America. And let's realize that the 
vulnerable cannot be the brunt of our confusion about the debt ceiling. 
This is not a fight that we need on behalf of the American people.
  What we need to do is to say to the American people here is a job, 
and we are staying on this floor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to 
create jobs.
  Now is the time for jobs.

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