February 7, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 24 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. BIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BIGGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss, briefly, some of the 
accomplishments of the Trump administration that were pointed out in 
the State of the Union Address the other day.
  I think it is imperative that we recognize that over 5 million jobs 
have been created in the last 2 years, over 300,000 in the last month 
alone. The economists had predicted and projected 170,000 jobs, and yet 
almost twice as many jobs were created. There are now a record of 157 
million Americans employed in this country.
  The unemployment rate has remained at or below the 4 percent for 11 
straight months. That hasn't happened in almost 50 years.
  There has been half a million manufacturing jobs since President 
Trump became President, and there were more manufacturing jobs created 
in 2018 than any single year in the last 20 years.
  We have seen the judiciary be restored to, in my opinion, normalcy, 
with the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett 
Kavanaugh, and more than 40 Federal judges confirmed just this week.

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