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Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 14, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action

Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced an important bill, and it's called the ``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act.'' This bill, this important ``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act,'' would create 5 million jobs, Mr. Speaker, over 2 years, and cut the deficit by $2 trillion over 10 years.

The ``Rebuild the American Dream for the 99% Act'' creates direct-hire programs to put Americans back to work; provides grants for on-the-job training and employment services; invests $50 billion for infrastructure projects; creates a national infrastructure bank; improves ``buy American'' provisions; ends the practice of foreign currency manipulation; protects wounded veterans from job discrimination; extends unemployment insurance, including for people at 99 weeks; and supports the TANF emergency contingency fund to help States pay for the cost of hiring unemployed workers. We can do these things. The ``Rebuild the American Dream Act for the 99% Act'' does it.


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