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Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act
Mr. President, I commend the remarks by the Senator from Alaska and before him the Senator from Rhode Island and others tonight. One of the reasons we are here tonight is because we have been trying, over the last 18 months, to get some of our colleagues on the other side to join us in job creation strategies. We had almost no Senators--at the time just three on the other side--join our side to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That legislation, which we passed in the early part of 2009, has created--one rather conservative estimate--about 3 million jobs. But in an economy where we lost 8 million, we have to keep going and put in place other strategies.