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On the recordMay 16, 1996
Under the 4 years President Bush served as President, we created on average of 608,000 jobs per year, and in the last 40 months, from January of 1993 through December of 1995--it does not include these last 4 or 5 months, but my colleagues will recall there were in excess of 620,000 jobs created in the month of February alone. That is more jobs created on a yearly basis than between 1989 and 1992. Quickly someone is going to say, ``Well, those aren't great jobs.'' That is wrong. The overwhelming number of jobs, more than 90 percent of these jobs, are private sector jobs, and well over 60 percent of these jobs are high-paying jobs. Not every one of them is, but the overwhelming majority are high-paying jobs in the private sector.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing job creation during President Bush's administration.

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