[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13259]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        LET'S INVEST IN AMERICA

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, last night the President stood here to 
speak to us. He came to talk about his proposed American Jobs Act.
  I'm sure each and every one of us heard what we wanted to, didn't 
hear what we wanted to, and we took away different things after that 
speech. But what we all should have heard is that we were hired--I 
think those words were great--we were hired to do a job. And we must do 
that job. People are not going to wait 14 months for us to get our act 
together, especially those who are unemployed.
  We should also have heard the cry for the future of our Nation. The 
President said we must invest in our future. We must become the number 
one nation again. We cannot let China outbuild us, and neither can we 
have China and Europe take over manufacturing.
  Those are things that we, the United States, have been known for. We 
must do that. We must invest in ourselves again. We must invest in 
becoming the number one nation in the world. And we can do that if we 
are all committed to ``Make It In America.''
  Mr. Speaker, if we cannot put the pride of our Nation before all of 
us, we will never come together. Let us invest in America.

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