[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6555]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WORKING FOR JOBS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, for almost 40 months, unemployment 
has been at or above 8 percent. That's too high for too long.
  Right now, over 88 million people are not even considered in the 
workforce. These are people who have given up on searching for a job. 
It's time to restore economic freedom to America and put Americans back 
to work. This will happen when Washington stops being an obstacle to 
job creation through its overtaxing, overspending, overregulating 
practices, and starts promoting an economic environment where our job 
creators can do what they do best: create jobs.
  Americans are ready to go to work. Just this past week, I sponsored a 
job fair in East Liverpool, Ohio, where hundreds of Ohioans showed up 
for a chance to enter the workforce. In fact, many job seekers actually 
left the job fair with renewed self-confidence, hope in the fact that 
they had a job to go to the next day, and a belief that the American 
Dream still might exist for them. We need to see more of this, Mr. 
Speaker.

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