On the recordNovember 18, 2014
I am so pleased the Senator made the point. Today we had Senator Thune make an eloquent statement about jobs-- eloquent--and I thought he was going to change his position on minimum wage. How about that. Try raising a family on that. These wind tax credits and these solar tax credits, this is creating a boom. I will say in my State, as in yours, I put something in the Record today, we have bounced back from this recession better than almost any State because of clean energy. It is such a win/win. But our friends on the other side, when it is something the oil companies want--oh, they are out there, oh, yes, yes, jobs. But we know this is 50 jobs. This is the CEO of this pipeline company admitting that is it, 50 jobs. So it is not about the jobs, it is about their view of energy, which is the old way, which is the going backward. This was not embracing the clean energy future so that we can, in fact, create many more jobs and keep the planet clean.
