[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11434]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FOXX. As the Nation sits beneath 41 straight months of 
unemployment above 8 percent, it remains painfully clear that the 
President's policies have failed and have made our economy worse. 
``Painful'' is, indeed, the operative word.
  As we slog through the worst unemployment crisis since the Great 
Depression, Americans continue to ask, ``Where are the jobs?''
  More than 23 million of our fellow Americans are unemployed. Almost 
500,000 net jobs have evaporated since the President's so-called 
``stimulus'' was enacted, and entrepreneurship--that cornerstone of the 
American Dream--has reached a 17-year low. This is President Obama's 
record, and these facts do not lie.
  House Republicans have a plan for America's job creators to help get 
our Nation back to work. Dozens of bipartisan bills have passed the 
House and are sitting on Harry Reid's doorstep. It is time he and the 
Democratic-controlled Senate put the American people before politics 
and pass these bills.

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