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The Hill: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/17...ittee-for-jobs

Rep. John Larson (Conn.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus, wants to amend the recently passed debt-limit package to establish a joint select committee on job creation to operate alongside the already mandated Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

In a "Dear Colleague" letter sent to House members earlier in the week, Larson argued that the nation's jobs crisis is only exacerbating its long-term fiscal problems and therefore demands Congress's immediate attention.

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Larson's jobs committee would be set up in identical fashion to the emerging deficit panel, but instead of coming up with a strategy for deficit-reduction, the panel would design a plan to provide every American with a job within a decade.

"This would allow the Congress to simultaneously consider both our near-term (high unemployment) and our long-term (growing debt) challenges later this year," Larson wrote. "Just like the Deficit Committee, all options would be on the table. We owe the American people nothing less."