America needs jobs. The unemployment is too high, and there are concrete things that we can do to create jobs. One is to pass the Home Star Energy Retrofit bill into law. The Senate has to act. The House passed it on a bipartisan basis last year. It's a partnership between homeowners, the private sector, and government. It will create 170,000 jobs where we need them the most: in manufacturing; in retail, by getting customers to the local hardware stores; and in construction, by putting out-of-work home builders to work retrofitting homes. This is a triple play. It will allow us to save $10 billion in energy bills, it will put 170,000 out of work folks to work, and it will help homeowners save on their energy bills.
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The speaker is advocating for the Home Star Energy Retrofit bill to create jobs and reduce energy costs.
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