[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8013]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         PASS THE JOBS ACT NOW

  (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 885 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. This Congress is pretending our unemployment 
crisis is completely over. This Congress is acting as though surface 
scandals and a now rapidly shrinking budget deficit are the only issues 
that matter to this country. Try telling that to any of the 12 million 
unemployed Americans, who are today struggling to keep their homes and 
to pay for their food and health care. Try telling that to any of the 3 
million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year and are 
facing the indescribably painful possibility that they will never work 
again.
  Mr. Speaker, unemployment is the Nation's true deficit. Let's pass 
the Jobs Now Act and the President's American Jobs Act to end it. The 
mantra of this Congress should be: jobs, jobs, jobs.

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