[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2954-2955]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PASS OUR JOBS BILL

  (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JENKINS. Madam Speaker, it has been 4 years since the height of 
the Great Recession and our economy is nowhere near where it should be. 
Unemployment continues to hover around 8 percent and thousands upon 
thousands of hardworking Americans have left the job market altogether.
  After the President killed the Keystone pipeline, gas prices have 
skyrocketed, and, by some estimates, more

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than 20 percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages.
  Madam Speaker, Americans need real jobs, real solutions, and real 
results, not the unprecedented, unacceptable, and unsustainable 
wasteful Washington spending some of our colleagues continue to 
promote. It's time Washington started protecting and respecting the 
hardworking American taxpayers. We need a system where their hard work 
is rewarded and every American has a chance to succeed.
  I urge the Senate and the President to pass our jobs bills and work 
with us to get the American people back to work.

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