[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16101-16102]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, the folks in my Arizona district have 
seen enough of the partisan nonsense in Washington. The distractions 
here help no one, but jobs do, and that is why we have to stay focused 
on economic development.
  In my district, those opportunities include strengthening our 
infrastructure:
  At the Grand Canyon, the trans-canyon pipeline is in desperate need 
of repair, and the Canyon's maintenance backlog continues to grow;
  In the White Mountains, we can revive the timber industry by building 
on the momentum of the Eagar sawmill and the Fort Apache Timber 
Company;
  And with a new contractor onboard, it is time to shift the Four 
Forest Restoration Initiative into high gear and help our forests.
  Projects like these create jobs and improve the quality of life for 
folks in rural Arizona. I urge my colleagues to work together on 
commonsense efforts to create jobs.

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