[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1672]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            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's been 786 days since I 
arrived in Congress, and the Republican leadership in the House of 
Representatives has not allowed a single vote on serious legislation to 
address our unemployment crisis. Congress has instead been consumed by 
a single-minded focus on the Federal budget deficit. Well, I have news 
for my colleagues: our real deficit is unemployment.
  Unemployment is not only the moral crisis of our time--leaving 
families homeless and dreams destroyed--but also an underlying cause of 
our Federal Government's increased levels of borrowing. Massive job 
losses following the 2008 financial crisis left us with fewer tax 
receipts and more people requiring benefits. There's ultimately only 
one responsible way to reduce the Federal deficit: get everyone 
trained, get everyone retrained, get everyone working, and get everyone 
contributing to the tax base. Jobs, jobs, jobs should be our mantra.

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