[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PASS IMMIGRATION REFORM

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, since this Congress convened, it has done 
nothing to help create jobs. In fact, through ill-advised and 
overenthusiastic cutting, the sequester, the shutdown, the threat to 
our full faith and credit, this Congress has destroyed jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, what if I told you there was a jobs bill just sitting 
waiting to be passed that would add almost $1 trillion to our economy 
in a 10-year period? What if I told you this jobs bill would create 
121,000 new jobs every single year for 10 years? What if I told you 
that this would also make us a more humane Nation that would stop the 
breakup of families and the deportations of moms and dads, of Dreamers? 
What if I told you that this jobs plan got 68 votes in the United 
States Senate, a divided United States Senate.
  Of course, I am describing the comprehensive immigration bill, which 
the Speaker of this House refuses to bring up. There is no principled, 
no logical objection to this thing. There are just scare tactics that 
people with funny accents and names you can't pronounce will come and 
take your job. That is not true. It is time to pass that jobs bill.

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