Barbara Boxer: “Yes. I have pointed out here, as has the Senator, my friend, and Senator Daschle, record job losses that we are seeing…”

“Yes. I have pointed out here, as has the Senator, my friend, and Senator Daschle, record job losses that we are seeing, the weakest economic growth. We all know stories. We read the headlines: 10,000 jobs lost here, 5,000 there, 2,000 there. I say to my friend from Nevada, behind every one of these record job losses is a personal story. It is not as if this administration is willing to give folks the tools to retrain. We on this side of the aisle have to fight every inch of the way to save programs that give people the tools to retrain. We have had to fight the Bush administration on the H-1B program--it is a wonderful program that my friend has supported along with me--to retrain people. We have personal stories of those people, where they have done so well with worker retraining. We have to fight every step of the way. Even with the free trade bill, there was a big struggle to see if we could make part of that, at least, some worker retraining. My friend is right. This is not only a terrible record, it is a reversal from policies that were brought to us by a Democratic President, Bill Clinton, that brought us a wonderful economy and hope in our future.”