[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

  (Ms. WILSON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it has now been more than 1,000 
days since I arrived in Congress, and Republican leaders have still not 
allowed a single vote on serious legislation to address our 
unemployment crisis.
  We have lost millions of jobs through outsourcing and technological 
changes. We have lost millions of jobs due to the Great Recession. We 
are losing millions of jobs through sequestration and State budget 
cuts. And now we have the nerve to shut down the government, risk 
default, and bring our employees to the gates of hell.
  Mr. Speaker, open up this government. Raise the debt ceiling, and get 
us back to dealing with the real crisis: job creation.
  The mantra of this Congress should be: jobs, jobs, jobs.

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