[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9536]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       DETERMINING A PATH FORWARD

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, over the last couple of hours, we had 
the opportunity to discuss some important issues that, as they were 
framed, many Americans might not understand. They are called trade 
issues or trade legislation to discuss the interactions between the 
United States and its future world trading partners.
  No vote here should be maligned. When I stand here to emphasize that 
whatever the ultimate results are, if these bills do not generate into 
actual jobs for our local districts, then we have all failed.
  That is the question for this Congress and that is the question for 
those who are working so intently and for those of us who raise the 
question whether jobs are created. And we will only move forward if we 
can determine a pathway of a structure that actually addresses the 
question of documented jobs, nonlost jobs or substituting jobs for the 
American people.
  Trade, yes, it is business. But it is also the business of the 
American people and the constituents of the 18th Congressional District 
in areas like Fifth Ward and southeast and South Park and Acres Home 
and Independence Heights. It is a question of whether or not jobs are 
created.
  Mr. Speaker, I look forward to that answer being answered as ``yes.''

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