mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. i suspect that, mr. speaker, all of us would want to see more jobs in america. the great american manufacturing sector, over the last 20 years, has lost about nine million -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california will suspend. the gentleman is correct, the house is not in order. the chair would ask all members to take their conversations from the floor. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. garamendi: 25 years ago, no one throughout this world would doubt that the greatest manufacturing nation in the world was america. 25 years later, nine million jobs later having been lost, america has lost its preimminence or about to lose its preimminence. it seems it's our job here as representatives of the american public and the american economy to do everything we possible can to rebuild and re-establish the great american manufacturing sector, to do everything we can to restore to america those nine mi

mr. garamendi, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. speaker, it's good to be back here for another week of work. we certainly have work to do. out across this nation, there are still a lot of people unemployed and it's time for congress to take this extremely important task and to get it done. we have been talking here on the floor for a long time how we can create jobs in america and make it in america agenda that my colleagues have put forth in the last 2 1/2 years is a bill designed to bring jobs back to the united states. and we need them. an article that appeared in the newspapers this last day or so talked about this. this is paul krugman talking about the long-term unemployment we have here in the united states. he cites that for the last five years, we have been in a crisis. unemployment remains elevated, with almost 12 million americans out of work. but that's where the real striking and huge numbers is in another category and that's the long-term unemployment. 4.6 million americans have been unemploye

mr. garamendi says. i want to thank the corps for the work you do under at times some dirty trying circumstances, thank you very much. at the risk of being irreverent, my summary of both this hearing and the current state of affairs with respect to the court is we've met the enemy and it is us, and the us in this case is congress. we are constantly asking you to do more, constantly wringing our hands that you're not doing more or doing the things we want you to do. and yet we are giving you less. we are proposing phantom solutions to real-world problems. the earmark ban prevent you from going forward on the 23 chief reports that are completed for which we have expended taxpayer money. the earmark ban prevent you from acting on the 30 some projects for which we hit the 902 caps, for which we spent a great deal of taxpayer money. so i just a much hope we now have a very clear understanding of what we need to do. and again, i want to thank chairman gibbs and chairman shuster for these sessions and the stake

mr. garamendi: i thank you so much for joining us this evening. we're still the strongest and best country in the world. there is no other place like america and if we begin acting like we can andr that is a --ong, robust, dynamic coubt country. we can do it. we can build. we can invest and every time we invest a dollar into infrastructure, we put americans back to work and give them the opportunity to take care of their family and stay in their home and provide for their children's education. and when we do that, we create the foundation for future economic growth, whether it's education or research or building the infrastructure and making it in america. as we do these things, this agenda is the america agenda, the one that created this. it's the american history. it's there before us, we can do it and must do it and owe it to the american people. mr. speaker, we yield back our remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 20