Political Quotes

“Thank you for the opportunity to present here on the floor the solution to the question that was just raised by my colleague from the Republican side of the aisle. A month ago, the President laid out a plan that would create millions of jobs here in the United States. It was the American Jobs Act. We are going to talk about this tonight. Before I get into the details of it, last week, in fact 1 week ago, I held a town hall meeting in Fairfield, California. At that town hall meeting the question of jobs was on everybody's mind. What are you doing about jobs? What is Congress doing about jobs? It just seems as though nothing is happening, and all we're seeing from Congress is talk of the deficit and cuts. Every time there's a cut, we have another job loss here in our area. Maybe it's a school teacher that's laid off or some highway project that's not going forward. So what's happening with the jobs? And I then began to explain the American Jobs Act, and we're going to spend some time this evening talking just about that issue, the American Jobs Act. {time} 1730 As proposed by the President, it does address a variety of ways in which American jobs will be created, and not increasing the deficit at all, but rather fully paid for. I would like to start off this evening by asking my colleague from the great State of New York (Mrs. Maloney) if she would like to express the view from the East Coast, and then I'll move to the West Coast.”