[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 182-183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               JOB GROWTH

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, fostering job growth for the American people 
continues to be the number one job for House Republicans. We certainly 
don't know what the number one job is for President Obama, but it 
doesn't seem to be creating jobs. He talks a good game, but when it 
comes to delivering, he does nothing. He has refused to approve the 
Keystone pipeline, which would immediately create 20,000 jobs, bring 
down the price of gasoline for hardworking Americans, and ultimately 
create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
  You would think with unemployment above 8 percent for the past 35 
months and the Obama economy continuing to produce the Nation's worst 
jobless record since the Great Depression that we would see different 
actions out of the President.
  Last year, following the House Republican plan for America's job 
creators, the House passed more than 30 bipartisan bills on behalf of 
the American people. We outline them on this card. Each bill is aimed 
at unleashing the power of our private sector to freely and confidently 
build, invest, innovate, and expand again and put millions of Americans 
back to work. The Keystone pipeline is one of those projects that 
should be done.
  Unfortunately, 27 of these bipartisan House-passed jobs bills are 
being ignored or blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate. The 
American people are tired of waiting. It's time for the Democrats in 
the Senate and the White

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House to put politics aside and pass these jobs bills.

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