[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 7119-7120]
[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's now been 866 days since I 
arrived in Congress, and the Republican leadership has still not 
allowed a single vote on serious legislation to address our 
unemployment crisis.
  That's zero votes to address our Nation's most pressing emergency. 
That's zero votes to address the sequester policies that are making our 
job crisis immeasurably worse. Yet yesterday, the Republican Congress 
took its 37th vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
  Mr. Speaker, this was not only a colossal waste of valuable time that 
could have been spent focusing on jobs legislation, it's a further step 
in the wrong direction. By expanding access

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to health care, the Affordable Care Act gives Americans more disposable 
income, creating more customers for our businesses and, in turn, more 
jobs.
  It's time to bring the American Jobs Act to the floor. It deserves a 
vote.
  Investigate Benghazi; investigate the AP leaks; investigate the IRS; 
but, Mr. Speaker, don't forget our focus, our crisis. Our mantra should 
be: jobs, jobs, jobs.

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