[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11384]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, last year my Republican colleagues ran their 
campaign on the slogan: ``Where are the jobs?'' It's been 28 weeks 
since the Republicans took control of the House, and the question still 
remains: Where are the jobs?
  We all know that the Bush tax for the wealthy failed to create new 
jobs. They fooled the public once. It ain't going to happen again.
  Now, instead of working to create jobs, Republicans are holding our 
country hostage, taking the debt limit talks to the brink.
  Under the Republican budget proposal, seniors will lose guaranteed 
medical benefits, have their out-of-pocket medical expenses double. The 
Republican plan will reopen the Medicare doughnut hole area, costing 4 
million seniors an additional $2.2 billion. It's wrong to make our 
seniors suffer to give a tax break to the ultrarich and corporations 
that ship jobs overseas.
  No new taxes, no new jobs. No taxes, no jobs. No taxes, no jobs.
  Let's put together a plan that lowers our deficit without doing it on 
the backs of our seniors and the middle class.

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