Martha Roby: “I wanted to share a few numbers with you. Since the President took office in January 2009, the U-6 unemployment rate has…”

“I wanted to share a few numbers with you. Since the President took office in January 2009, the U-6 unemployment rate has remained stuck at 14 percent. That's workers that are stuck in part-time jobs, or they just have dropped out of the workforce altogether. During that same time we've watched, as I mentioned earlier, the national debt go from $9.8 trillion to $16.9 trillion; and according to Gallup, 17.3 percent of Americans consider themselves underemployed, which goes to your point. The President also promised 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016, but factory employment has continued to fall in 2013, where 4.3 million Americans have been out of work for 6 weeks or more. The point is that we started this hour talking about The Washington Post article where the President came out and said that he is going to pivot back to jobs and the economy; and to the gentleman from Colorado's point, he should have never left the issue of jobs and the economy. Here in the House, our majority has been working tirelessly, as the gentleman from Illinois said, to bring the other side and say look, we have these commonsense solutions. This is about my kids and yours. This is about the future of this country.…”