[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2587]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 I AM PROUD TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMA

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the pleasure of having some 
gentlemen from the railroad industry come and visit my office, and they 
let me know how their business has improved over the years.
  One of the indices of an improving economy is the number of railcars 
filled, and that has gone up and up. Warren Buffett said it was the 
best indicator of how the economy is doing. The railcars are being 
filled, and a lot of it is because of automobile distribution and 
automobile production.
  The automobile industry in our Nation was saved because of the 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the work of President Barack 
Obama and the TARP, all of which have helped our economy get better and 
lower our unemployment rates.
  As I think of the good work President Obama has done, I read 
yesterday about an al Qaeda arrested and stopped in Cairo, Egypt. 
Besides Osama bin Laden, other members of al Qaeda have been eliminated 
and our country is safer.
  The Dow went over 13,000, which is another indicator of a burgeoning 
economy that is getting out of the Bush recession.
  I want to say that I'm proud to support President Obama, his jobs 
plan, his efforts to maintain the automobile industry strong in 
America, and to support him in Libya and root out Qadhafi and al Qaeda 
in other places.

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