To my colleagues, it is a pleasure to be with Congressman Gene Green. We work very hard and together on great assets of ...
This port has really been the basis for some 287,000 direct and indirect jobs, generating $11 billion in economic impact...
I happen to believe that personnel are key to terrorist prevention or terrorist acts prevention, in addition to technolo...
These funds are crucial to keeping our country safe and protecting the communities and workers at our Nation's ports.
I have been very glad to be a supporter of that for the port for terrorist prevention, if you will.
Forming the Houston Ship Channel Security District was a major accomplishment that increases the area's emergency prepar...
We must ensure the security and safety of the people who work at and near the port.
Government needs to get out of the way. It needs to end its job-killing rhetoric, regulations, and intervention.
And you said they are historic numbers?
America deserves a strong, growing economy that fully employs our people and is the envy of the world.
We know we cannot recover on the 117,000.
I guess in terms of the private-sector number, which I think is a pretty important number for us to watch.
But that number alone, the African American number for most of the last year seems like it has been in the 14 to 15 rang...
the private sector number is up 154,000.
Basically January to April.
And I also mentioned a few other categories.
I voted against the debt deal because I could not, in good conscience, support the use of a manufactured crisis to imple...
We really need really significantly higher job growth than we have had to make a dent.
