[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13081-13082]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, in the President's pivot back to jobs last 
week, he told a crowd that America has fought its way back 5 years 
after the start of the Great Recession.
  Five years ago, unemployment was at 5 percent; today it's as 6\1/2\. 
Five years ago, the national poverty rate was at 12\1/2\ percent; today 
it exceeds 15 percent. Five years ago, 30 million Americans received 
food stamps; today 47.8 million are enrolled.
  We are no way back to where we were before the 2008 collapse, and 
it's the President's economic agenda that is pushing us further into 
danger.
  As a business owner for 42 years, I've been on the receiving end of 
these job-killing policies, and I know what it will take to get the 
economy back on track. We need true tax reform, we need to get the 
government out of health care, we need to energize the energy business, 
and we need to make sure our military remains fully funded, well 
equipped, and the best in the world.
  We should never accept 7.6 percent as the normal level for 
unemployment or a 15 percent poverty rate; and we should never accept 
an economy that creates more food stamps than jobs.
  In God we trust.

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