[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9589]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              JOBS NOW ACT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Ms. Wilson of Florida) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the American people are now in 
the 899th day of a scandal that is truly ``worse than Watergate.'' Yet, 
this scandal has nothing to do with Cincinnati or the AP or Benghazi or 
even NSA. It is the scandal of this Republican Congress failing to 
bring a single serious bill to address our unemployment crisis to the 
floor for a vote.
  The tens of millions of people affected by this scandal are not 
constantly on television drawing attention to their plight; they're too 
busy looking for work. They're not hiring lobbyists to press for 
change; they're too busy figuring out how they're going to pay for 
their next meals, for the roofs over their heads, or for their 
children's college tuition.
  Mr. Speaker, this scandal, unlike so many other scandals in history, 
is one that you can end instantly. You have the power to bring the Jobs 
Now Act to the floor for a vote. It deserves a vote.
  Mr. Speaker, the only scandal that matters to the American people 
right now is this Congress' failure to address unemployment. Our mantra 
should be: jobs, jobs, jobs for the American people.

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