[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12025]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Ms. CLARKE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, our colleagues on the other side 
of the aisle have been in the majority for a full 29 weeks, and they 
still have not addressed the number one priority of the American 
people: jobs.
  The Republican majority has, instead, used the time and energy that 
should have been focused on jobs to manufacture a crisis that could 
very well destroy the full faith and credit of our Nation. What makes 
this made-up crisis so undignified is that the other side has taken the 
American people hostage to their radical plan of placing the burden of 
deficit reduction on the backs of poor, working poor, and struggling 
middle class families while asking absolutely nothing of the most 
fortunate among us. Why, Mr. Speaker, have those who have done very 
well in America been asked to do so little for the country that made 
their success possible?
  The Republican-led 112th Congress has totally ignored the jobs crisis 
and has actually managed to create another. The 112th Congress owes the 
American people an apology for continuing to waste their time. Where 
are the jobs? We owe the American people real job creation.

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