Jeff Denham: “With the June national unemployment rate at 9.2 percent and with consistent double-digit unemployment in my district, we…”

“With the June national unemployment rate at 9.2 percent and with consistent double-digit unemployment in my district, we must get Americans back to work. June marks 29 consecutive months in which we've had unemployment at or above 8 percent, averaging 9.5 percent during that time. Unemployment hasn't been above 8 percent for that length of time since the Great Depression. We've got to start utilizing the policies that will get Americans back to work. We need to make sure that we are reducing the regulations and are having the economic policies that get Americans willing to take the risk: the risk to go out and borrow money to start a business, willing to take the risk to not only hire employees but to actually make sure that they're willing to have that long-term employment, making sure that they've got the promise to those employees that they're going to be able to continue on those jobs. We've got to give Americans the opportunity to take that great risk in our economy. We also need to unleash the strength of our Nation by utilizing our natural resources. The greatest opportunity we have as a Nation to get Americans back to work is by utilizing our own natural resources. In my area, where we've got double-digit unemployment, we've got a water shortage that causes our agriculture to leave land fallow, leaving thousands unemployed. By getting the water flowing again, we will not only get agriculture moving again but the local economies as well.…”