Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

Floor Speech

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Mr. PETERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank my Democratic colleagues for standing with me to protect a program that has created or saved over 41,000 auto jobs.

At one point during this debate, many thought that the Republicans would be successful in cutting $1.5 billion from a program that literally moved production of the Ford Focus from Mexico to Michigan creating thousands of badly needed manufacturing jobs.

But we proved them wrong. We proved that a united Democratic Caucus can stand up and win when we're working to save jobs.

By uniting, we showed Speaker BOEHNER that Democrats in the House would not stand by and accept a plan to kill tens of thousands of jobs.

Today marks a victory for working Americans, but we must never let our guard down.

As long as Republicans continue to put Tea Party Special Interests and corporate outsourcers before American jobs, the fight will continue.

I hope that our friends on the other side of the aisle will take this opportunity to end their war on jobs and the American Middle Class but if they do not, we will unite and fight back once again.

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