I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we're on is not producing jobs as quickly as I want it to happen.

The economy that was shedding jobs over the last 13 months, we've created 2 million jobs in the private sector.

We must give employers who want to play by the rules a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally.

Women participate in every sector of the workforce.

The true engine of job growth in this country will always be the private sector.

What Government can do is help create the conditions for companies to hire again.

The truest measure of progress would be whether or not we were creating jobs.

Government can't replace every job that has been lost.

More than 7 million jobs have been lost since the recession began two years ago.

A good place to start, and what I hope to spend a lot of time on in these discussions today, is how we can move forward on a jobs package that encourages small business to hire.

I've proposed a new tax credit for more than 1 million small businesses that hire new workers or raise wages.

We're starting with small businesses because that's where most of the new jobs do.

What government can do is fuel that engine: by giving entrepreneurs and companies the support to open their doors, expand, and hire more workers.

Today, we're taking another step towards assisting small business owners get the capital they need to grow and hire.

They want us to start worrying less about keeping our jobs and more about helping them keep their jobs.

Small businesses like this have created roughly 65 percent of all new jobs over the past decade and a half.

Creating jobs has to be our number-one priority in 2010.

A job that pays the bills.