[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5060-5061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          A TALE OF TWO CITIES

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, Members of Congress have just come back 
now from 2 weeks of recess being at home. And group after group after 
group that I spoke with talked about exactly the same thing that the 
previous speaker and others are talking about, and that is jobs, job 
creation, and the opportunity for our children, and sometimes our 
spouses, to get back into the jobs marketplace.
  I remind the people of Dallas, Texas, that there's really a tale of 
two States or two cities. One is Dallas, Texas, and the other is 
Chicago, Illinois, the State of Illinois vs. Texas.
  Texas, over the last few years, has created more jobs than the other 
49 States combined. The reason why we've done this is because we chose 
not to do the path that Illinois has done, and that is, raising taxes, 
lowering job expectations and performance, and the ability for people 
to want to invest in that State and their future.
  Mr. Speaker, that's exactly the same background and philosophy that 
our President and Democrats are having to run jobs out of America. I 
stand for the

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Texas model, lowering taxes and making sure we have jobs.

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