[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5990-5991]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           AMERICAN JOBS ACT

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak about the most 
important issue facing our country. Guess what? It has nothing to do 
with repealing ObamaCare. It is about jobs.
  Instead of bringing the American Jobs Act to the floor, an act which 
would create nearly 2 million new jobs, my Republican colleagues remain 
obsessed with trying to repeal ObamaCare.
  This may be the only job in America at which you can try to do 
something more than 50 times and still have a job. It is time to move 
on and pass a bill that will help to create jobs.
  In my home State of Rhode Island and across the country, unemployment 
rates remain unacceptably high. It is time to stop rehashing old 
political battles and to move on to the issues that will help grow our 
economy and get people back to work.

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  The American Jobs Act will boost consumer demand and hiring by 
cutting taxes for struggling families and small businesses, and it will 
invest in infrastructure and education. It is fully paid for.
  Why would my colleagues on the other side oppose a bill that 
independent analysts, including Moody's Analytics, say would create up 
to 1.9 million new jobs?
  Madam Speaker, it is time to take up this legislation to get our 
economy back on track and to help Americans get back to work.

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