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




                          IT'S AS EASY AS ABC

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Tonight, our President will speak to us and all 
America and will call on Congress to put America back to work and our 
economy back on a stronger track to recovery. House and Senate 
Democrats have kept up a steady drumbeat for jobs since we convened in 
January.
  As our Democratic leader says, it's as easy as ABC--make it in 
America; build our infrastructure; and focus on community recovery, 
which so many parts of our country desperately need right now after 
tornadoes, storms, floods and fires, with more storms to come.
  I support our President's call to action and ask all of my colleagues 
to do the same, but I also hope that we in Congress can make sure the 
jobs package we pass is big enough to do the job. We are where we are 
now because we listened to the deficit hawks and agreed to a Recovery 
Act that was not big enough to bring us out of the recession.
  Our constituents all over this country are hurting, and I really hope 
we can put aside partisanship and put them first. We can get an 
important two-for because job creation is also deficit reduction. When 
we make sure our fellow Americans can take care of their families, we 
will also be making sure America can begin to take care of its debt.

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