[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 610]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      GETTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Recently, the President of the United States indicated 
that he will be sending legislation to the Congress in order to get 
America back to work. He also indicated that he would use the powers of 
the executive branch where there was no cooperation from the Congress 
in what he was trying to do. There's an old African saying, that is, 
when two elephants fight, only the grass gets hurt. I would certainly 
hope that the leadership in the House and the Senate take the President 
up on some of the offers that he has made to educate our young people, 
to make certain that those people that are about to lose their homes 
are able to keep them, and to see that we get the type of incentives 
from manufacturers to have jobs here rather than overseas.
  I am certain that those people who watched the Republican debates 
were missing one thing, and that is jobs. America wants to get back to 
work. It wants its dignity, it wants its kids to be able to get an 
education, and it wants to restore the middle class.

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