[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14616]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE AUGUST JOBS REPORT

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the August jobs report is out, and it contains 
more bad news. The 6-month trend creating 200,000-plus jobs is over.
  Consider that in order to return to its previous pre-recession 
levels, the economy needs to add more than 380,000 private sector jobs 
every month. 200,000 is barely half of the needed number, and this 
month we dropped to 142,000 new jobs.
  This ``new normal'' might be okay for Washington and the booming 
public sector, but it is not okay with the millions of Americans 
struggling to find work and the millions more who have given up looking 
altogether.
  The House has passed more than 40 bills that would address our 
struggling economy and help create jobs. These bills are now sitting in 
the Senate while that body debates whether or not to gut the First 
Amendment.
  Maybe if the Senators acted on some of these House-passed bills they 
wouldn't have to spend so much time worrying about what people are 
saying about them.

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