WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today called on Congress to focus intently on job creation when it returns to Washington next week, and released his own “Blueprint for American Jobs” to update Delawareans on his legislative strategy for supporting job creation. The strategy is based in part on feedback received at three roundtable discussions the Senator hosted in August, as well as on hundreds of meetings and conversations with business leaders and out-of-work Delawareans this year.
“As today's disappointing jobs report re-confirms, Congress needs to pursue a new jobs agenda,” Senator Coons said, “one that will not only lead to the growth of skilled and sustainable American jobs for decades ahead but that will also put Americans back to work now. Instability in the job market is an urgent threat that we need to address immediately.”
The Senator’s strategy, which can be read online at http://coons.senate.gov/blueprint, cites 38 specific bills that Congress could pass and ideas that Congress should explore to help propel America’s economic recovery. They are spread across six key actions:
Senator Coons expressed frustration at seeing Democratic efforts in Congress to help create jobs repeatedly stymied by partisan politics.
“Every time a bill that would help create jobs came up — even ones that in previous years enjoyed widespread bipartisan support — it would be blocked,” Senator Coons writes in the plan. “Too many opportunities to help middle-class Americans were sacrificed at the altar of partisan politics. Those politics, which nearly shutdown our government in March and nearly caused our nation to default in July, must be put aside. We have a jobs crisis in America, and it is long past time Congress gets engaged in solving it.”
Delawareans are invited to weigh in on the plan and suggest their own ideas for job creation on Senator Coons’ website at http://coons.senate.gov/contact/.
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