I think at the beginning of my statement I said that I am willing to work across the aisle to achieve the goals to help provide for a recovery, but also underscoring the importance of having worker safety and protections in place.
Solis emphasizes bipartisan cooperation for worker safety and recovery efforts.
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We need to do better, and I am pleased to be working with employers to help grow the size of the disability labor force to six million by 2015.
At stake is the very survival of the basic American promise that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family, own a home and put enough away for retirement.
I agree with you that we need to have better trade agreements that are fair, and I look forward to encouraging the manufacturing base here to grow and be robust.
However, you and I know we still have a lot more work to do because we realize there are 12.8 million people that are still looking for work.
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