[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13113]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Ms. CHU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, American families are profoundly worried. Many 
have lost their jobs. They've seen college tuition rise, and watched 
their nest egg shrink. Unemployment is stuck at 9.1 percent. You can 
feel the pain.
  That is why a jobs bill is so critical. And yet, after 9 months of 
the Republicans taking over the House, they haven't passed a single 
jobs bill. Instead, they voted 10 times against job creation plans. 
They passed bills that gut millions of American jobs.
  And Governor Perry even attacked one of the few programs still 
keeping Americans afloat, calling Social Security ``a Ponzi scheme,'' 
blaming seniors for defrauding younger generations.
  Americans need more than empty promises. Tonight we will hear a 
proposal from the President. Let's work together to finally provide 
real solutions that will put people back to work and give them hope for 
the future.

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