David Schweikert: “I have a quick thought experiment for everyone. If I had come to you a year ago and said that the United States would be…”

“I have a quick thought experiment for everyone. If I had come to you a year ago and said that the United States would be at 3.8 percent unemployment, you would have laughed at me. If I had come to you and said that African American unemployment would be the lowest in modern times, Hispanic unemployment would be tied with some of the lowest numbers in modern times, that you would be seeing data of felons being recruited out of prison for work because there is such a labor shortage, and when one of the greatest difficulties we have in our society right now in the labor force is not enough workers and too many jobs, why isn't there this sound of joy from every American that this was the dream so many of us had of where we would be? So, as we go through our regions, I was going to invite Mr. Curtis of Utah to come up and tell us what is happening in that beautiful State because I have actually seen some stories of the Salt Lake area and other parts of Utah just doing amazingly well right now. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Curtis).”