[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12448]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  RECENT COLLEGE GRADUATES FAILED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BIG-GOVERNMENT 
                                APPROACH

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, President Obama yesterday pivoted to jobs, 
or so it has been reported, during another campaign-style speech at 
Knox College in Illinois. During his hour-long speech, we heard no new 
ideas. Instead, President Obama battened down the hatches on his 
economic policies. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 
recently reported that more than 50 percent of college graduates are 
either unemployed or underemployed.
  Unfortunately, President Obama's economic policies have failed the 
class of 2013. Since he took office, President Obama has never really 
pivoted to jobs. Instead, he's always pivoted to Big Government. What's 
really grown over the last 4 years is President Obama's Washington. 
It's a Big Government boomtown.
  In contrast, the House has passed several pieces of legislation that 
would enable job growth. Let me name just a few of those initiatives: 
the SKILLS Act, the Keystone pipeline, and expanded offshore domestic 
energy production.
  If the President and the Senate would like to get serious about job 
creation, let me suggest they go to www.gop.gov/jobs. Unless the 
President truly pivots away from Big Government, we won't see real 
economic recovery until the class of 2017 graduates.

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