All across the country this morning, millions of Americans got up for another day of searching the job search Web sites or looking at the want ads, enduring another day of courtesy interviews, pointless discussions with potential employers, and dreading the arrival of the letter carrier today because he is going to bring one more credit card bill or dunning letter for a bill that they can't pay. Life has become a nightmare for 15 million unemployed Americans--and here we are in the House of Representatives. I don't think many of them got up this morning and said, I really hope that Congress for the second time in a month debates the repeal of the health care law. I think what our constituents said was, Why don't they get to work, working together to create jobs in this country? Instead, the Tower of Babel that the House of Representatives has become this week has produced yet another meaningless debate on the repeal of the health care law, which followed on the heel of defunding Planned Parenthood last night.
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The speaker addresses the unemployment crisis and critiques Congress's focus on health care repeal instead of job creation.
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