WHERE ARE THE JOBS? – PART I

AMERICAN JOBS BILL

In a letter dated November 4, 2010, although it said nothing about Jobs, Majority Leader of the U. S. House of Representative, Republican Eric Cantor, sent a letter to the House GOP Members of the 112^th Congress outlining some of the initial thoughts of how Congress should run.  Cantor’s letter said, among other things, that “we must govern differently. Not just differently than the Democrats, but differently from our previous majority. And job number one is to focus on more jobs for more Americans and to shift the economy from stall to forward. It’s time to produce results. Americans are asking for the opportunity to assume responsibility and get back to earning success.”  Cantor stated that the Republican’s number one priority was to focus on Jobs and that it’s “time to produce results.”

However, when the 112^th Congress convened in January 2011, Cantor’s first order of business was not to put a Jobs bill forward, but to sponsor H.R. 2: Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.  This Bill passed the House by a vote of 245 to 189 with only three Democrats voting for the Bill.  Even though Cantor had previously stated that the number one priority was to focus on jobs, during the campaign, there was a general consensus among Republicans that they would vote to abolish the Health Care Legislation.  So they accomplished the objective although the Bill died in the Senate.  Perhaps a Jobs Bill would be the next one to be introduced.

However, on January 19, 2011, Republican Christopher Smith introduced H.R. 3: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.  This bill would make permanent and expand the Hyde amendment restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortions.  This Bill did pretty much what the Hyde amendment already did.  It passed the House by a vote of 251 to 175, but failed in the Senate.  But still no Jobs bill.

Here is a summary of the legislation Republicans passed since Speaker Boehner and Cantor became leaders of the House.

• A bill to undermine our ability to provide a healthier environment for our children, eliminating every tool EPA has to address serious public health threats from carbon pollution, including increased childhood asthma;
• To protect taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil and speculators driving up gasoline prices, and against gasoline anti-price gouging legislation for consumers;
• To provide more tax cuts for millionaires, and protect tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas;
• To strengthen the role of special interests in our elections (by ending the Presidential Election fund that promotes small campaign donations) and against disclosure of foreign countries, companies, or individuals donating to presidential campaigns;
• To cripple public radio stations, particularly in rural areas, while not saving taxpayers one dime;
• To cut off key federal funding for Planned Parenthood — devastating the primary source of health care, especially preventive services like contraception, cancer screenings, breast exams, and HIV testing, for millions of women across the country;
• An unprecedented, radical assault on women’s health care – for the first time restricting how women with private insurance can spend private dollars in purchasing health insurance;
• The Ryan Bill that would effectively kill Medicare;
• To repeal health care reform on behalf of the health insurance industry;
• To undermine US ability to provide a healthier environment for our children, eliminating every tool EPA has to address serious public health threats from carbon pollution, including increased childhood asthma;
• To protect taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil and speculators driving up gasoline prices, and against gasoline anti-price gouging legislation for consumers;
• To provide more tax cuts for millionaires, and protect tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas;
• To strengthen the role of special interests in our elections (by ending the Presidential Election fund that promotes small campaign donations) and against disclosure of foreign countries, companies, or individuals donating to presidential campaigns;
• To cripple public radio stations, particularly in rural areas, while not saving taxpayers one dime;

The Republican controlled House has been very busy voting but thus far, has never introduced any kind of a “Jobs bill” even though they said that they would.

PART II TOMORROW

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