Jobs

Ms. LINDA T. SÁNCHEZ of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today for American working men and women who want to work but can't find a job. The Nation's unemployment rate stands at 10 percent, with my home State of California ranking third worst in the country.

While I support a stronger safety net to help families survive, in the end, Americans don't want unemployment checks. They want to work.

That's why I'm proud to support the Jobs for Main Street Act which will put Americans back to work in the most direct way possible: by hiring them. This bill makes overdue investments in America's rails, roads and schools and in well-paying Davis-Bacon-covered jobs for our workers.

The benefits for our economy of encouraging unionized jobs cannot be overstated. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, ``Everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the Nation, but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole Nation to undreamed of levels of production.''

May this bill continue in that tradition.

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