Providing for Consideration of H.R. 2930, Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, and Providing for Consideration of H.R. 2940, Access to Capital for Job Creators Act

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Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Let me, first of all, remind my colleagues that this is not an open process; this is not an open rule. If Members are watching the proceedings on the floor and want to offer an amendment, they are denied that opportunity. Not only that, but that's typical of the way this Congress has been run from the very beginning; promises of openness have not come to pass.

Let me also say that the Republican majority in this House of Representatives has failed, and they have failed miserably, on the issue of jobs. We have talked about everything but jobs.

This week we began our proceedings by debating a bill reaffirming the words ``In God We Trust'' as our national motto. Well, behind me, above the Speaker, in gold, is ``In God We Trust.'' On the back of a dollar bill it says, ``In God We Trust.'' I didn't know there was a problem. We get it. It didn't need reaffirming. It was there. But we spent a day debating that and not debating jobs. There are millions of people in this country without work, and we're debating those kinds of resolutions.

We should bring the President's job bill to the floor. Why can't we bring the President's jobs bill to the floor? It has bipartisan support. All the others had bipartisan support until the President presented it. We were denied that opportunity.

I am going to urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question so we can bring up the issue of China's manipulation of its currency. The bills we are debating here today are fine, but they are peanuts compared to the jobs that are lost because of China's manipulation of its currency. But we have not, time and time and time again, been allowed to bring that to the floor. We can't bring the President's jobs bill to the floor.

I have offered multiple times in the Rules Committee an amendment to end U.S. taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil; put that toward deficit reduction or put that toward investment in job creation. Time and time and time again, on party-line votes, we have been denied that right to bring that to the floor. So the Republicans have failed miserably on the issue of jobs.

To come out here and say that jobs have been a priority is laughable, given the stuff that we have debated on this floor. What we should be debating is the President's jobs bill.

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Mr. McGOVERN. I thank the gentleman.

Why won't you allow the President's jobs bill to come to the floor? Why have you denied us the opportunity to have an up-or-down vote on the issue of China's manipulation of its currency? Why, on these issues that will create millions of jobs, can we not get a vote?

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