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On the recordNovember 2, 2011
And thank you so very much for so ably representing Ohio and your constituents. We've got work to do. We've got veterans to care for, and they need help. Americans want jobs, and the American Jobs Act is there. If we were to bring that up today or tomorrow instead of the foolish little bills that have been going on around here for the last month and a half, Americans could go back to work, and it would be fully paid for with a fair tax. We have work to do. I ask the Speaker of the House and my Republican colleagues to give Americans a chance to go back to work. Put the American Jobs Act up for a vote; put that tax up for a vote, and let's pass it. I think we'd vote it out of here in half a moment if we had a chance. But right now we don't even have that chance. With that and hope for the future and thanksgiving for those men and women that have been out there protecting this Nation, the veterans, young and old, able and disabled, we thank them. I yield back the balance of my time. ____________________
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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