[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7276]
[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 870 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.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not an exaggeration to say that unemployment is 
a matter of life and death. In a new study, researchers at Oxford and 
Stanford found that approximately 4,750 suicides in the United States 
between 2007 and 2010 were attributed to unemployment.
  Now here in America, the sequester is slated to cut billions in 
nutrition subsidies, medical research, cancer clinics, low-income 
heating, and other lifesaving services. If we continue to cut jobs 
because of the sequester, Mr. Speaker, the facts are clear: the 
sequester kills.
  Mr. Speaker, it's time to bring H.R. 900, the Cancel the Sequester 
Act, to the floor for a vote. It is time to turn our attention back to 
jobs with the President's American Jobs Act.
  Our mantra, Mr. Speaker, should be: job, jobs, jobs.

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