[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13243-13244]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, this Republican majority is prepared to 
adjourn the House of Representatives to leave for the August district 
work period without accomplishing what the American people have sent us 
here to do. They want us to create jobs. They want us to reduce the 
deficit, and they want us to give a middle-income tax cut, which the 
President has suggested and the American people overwhelmingly support.
  Instead, we have no jobs agenda, no tax cuts for the middle class, no 
farm bill, no Violence Against Women Act, no cybersecurity strategy, no 
balanced, bipartisan plan to prevent the sequester.
  The only thing the Republicans have done is to increase the 
uncertainty that threatens another debt crisis and undermines our 
economic growth. Now they want to head out of town to campaign, when 
Congress should stay in session to address the most pressing challenges 
facing our Nation: job creation, growth in our economy, and 
strengthening the middle class.
  Mr. Speaker, Democrats want us to get our job done. When we go home 
to meet with our constituents, we want to say what we have accomplished 
and what results we can bring that have been worked out in a fair, 
bipartisan, balanced way.

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  In spite of this, the Republican obstruction at every turn is 
preventing that.
  Let's get to work. Let's do the job our constituents elected us to 
do: to create jobs with them and to relieve the uncertainty in their 
lives.

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