[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13115-13116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE AMERICAN WAY

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, the American people sent us here to work 
together and are tired of the partisan bickering and the finger-
pointing. I think it's very important tonight, as we listen to the 
President talk about creating jobs, that we work together to work with 
him; and I hope my Republican friends on the other side of the aisle 
don't summarily reject what the President is saying just to play 
politics.
  We need to create jobs in this country. Many years ago, Franklin 
Delano Roosevelt decided that, in order to get America back to work, he 
would create infrastructure jobs from the government. I think that is 
something that we should do, and I hope the President mentions it 
tonight. We have crumbling roads, crumbling bridges, and all kinds of 
things that could put America back to work.
  Let's not have a repetition of what happened a month or so ago when 
Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States in terms of finances. 
Let's work together. Let's work with our President. Let's support him 
as he tries to create more jobs.
  Less finger-pointing, more working together. That is the American 
way.

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