[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WE CAN REVIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, it's been 29 weeks since Republicans 
took control of the House, and yet they have failed to bring a single 
jobs bill to the floor. In fact, I just learned that their proposals 
are estimated to cost another 2 million lost jobs. Instead, they're 
wasting time pushing bills that will never become law but do make their 
position clear. Republicans are willing to hold the full faith and 
credit of the United States hostage in order to push for extreme 
policies that will gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and 
devastate the economy and the middle class while doing everything they 
can to protect millionaires and billionaires and companies that ship 
American jobs overseas.
  We need to raise the debt ceiling and then turn our attention to the 
real crisis, the jobs crisis. We can revive the American Dream. We 
must.

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