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Jobs

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 16, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Economy and Fiscal

Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, as we approach the Christmastime, too many Americans are asking, Where are the jobs? In January, the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. Only 10 months later, the national unemployment reached a whopping 10.2 percent, the highest level since April 1983. That means today there are 15.7 million unemployed Americans looking for work.

House Republicans have an economic recovery plan that will help get Americans back to work. Our economic recovery plan will create twice the jobs at half the cost of the Democrats' failed stimulus plan.

How ironic that our colleagues are coming to the floor today to talk about the need for jobs when it is their votes and the policies of this President that have killed so many jobs.

It's time we started working on behalf of the American people and focus on real commonsense solutions that will help put people get back to work and let them celebrate Christmas in a wonderful way.


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