Political Quotes

“I want to thank Senator Stabenow for her leadership on this and so many issues relating to jobs--jobs here in America. I had the opportunity to listen to a bit of the debate back and forth. I heard some of my colleagues who were not in favor of this very important bill that we hope to move tonight, to reward companies that produce jobs and create jobs in America and take away the tax breaks from those who ship jobs overseas and then try to import those products back to America. We are saying let us reward those who create the jobs here in America. That is as simple as it gets. I have heard my colleagues on the other side say in a very convoluted way that when we give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, it actually winds up creating more jobs in America. I wonder if they have met some of the people I met, who actually went to other countries to train their replacements. They went to other countries to train their replacements. We just passed a very important small business jobs bill. I saw the President today sign it into law. It is going to create jobs right here in America because, guess what, it is setting up a lending system, a deficit-neutral fund through our community banks. That $30 billion deficit neutral fund will be leveraged to $300 billion and we will see a half million jobs created through the small business community. They need access to capital. This is a good step. We cannot stop there. We have to do more.”