John Ensign: “I will wrap up my remarks. I have a couple comments. First of all, the economy is improving now, it is not just going to…”

“I will wrap up my remarks. I have a couple comments. First of all, the economy is improving now, it is not just going to improve in the future. We are in the middle of a recovery. We just had the strongest quarter of GDP growth in 20 years. Jobs are being produced. Payroll versus household--I do not know how many times we have to say it, but self-employed people count. They count in the household survey. Over 2 million jobs have been produced within the last year. When you count the households and all those self-employed people, those jobs should count in what we are talking about here. If somebody lost their job and then started their own company, that should count as a job. And that is what a lot of people have done. We know incredible success stories of when people have lost their jobs and then started their own companies. Mr. President, it is time to end this continued unemployment benefit extension, this billion-dollar-a-month program and encourage people to go to work.”