[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13583-13584]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              FACT-CHECKING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S JOBS RECORD

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Madam Speaker, the Obama Administration has said that 
they have created 4.5 million new jobs in the last 4 years. But, my 
colleagues, CNN, along with another group of individuals, in fact, a 
host of other organizations, have really fact-checked this claim. They 
found that, despite a surge in temporary hiring for the 2010 census,

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there were actually 400,000 fewer--fewer--nonfarm payroll jobs today 
than when the President took office in January 2009.
  But our job crisis is actually much, much worse because a large chunk 
of Americans have simply given up looking for work, and the jobs have 
not come back, and aren't the same ones that we lost.
  Also, according to a study released by the National Employment Law 
Project, low-wage fields such as retail sales and food service are 
adding jobs nearly three times as fast as higher-paid occupations. But 
we need to add these higher-paying jobs.
  The sad truth is that there are fewer people working now than when 
President Obama took office. And Madam Speaker, these are simply the 
facts.

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