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On the recordMay 12, 2011
I'll be very brief. I thank the gentleman for his continuing focus. If I am the corner of the phrase and the focuser of Make It in America, you are its chief spokesperson and salesperson, so I thank you for that effort. It's so important because, clearly, Americans are rightfully very concerned at the fact that we don't have enough jobs for the people who are looking for jobs. We've got to have a growth agenda in America. We've got to have an agenda in America that focuses on expanding opportunities. We've got to have an agenda that gives to Americans the sense that they and their families and their children can make it in America. You have been focusing night after night, week after week, month after month on a jobs agenda, which we call ``Make It in America.'' We've introduced over 25 bills that are focused on trying to help us focus on that agenda, on trying to help business--small, medium and large--expand their businesses and on trying to give them assistance in doing so. I want to say to the gentleman that, in his continuing to focus on this jobs agenda, it is critically important that Americans understand what the Make It in America agenda is all about so they can contact their Members of Congress and Members of the United States Senate and say, Look, we support the Make It in America agenda. We believe that it's an agenda for our opportunities and our children's opportunities.…
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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May 12, 2011

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