Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Veasey very much for bringing to our attention the role of the unions in maintaining wages throughout the United States. If we are looking for a better deal, better jobs, better wages, and a better future, certainly the union members in the maritime industry will--and have been able to--achieve that. The great risk is legislation may be moving through the Senate and the House that would terminate the Jones Act and, along with it, some 400,000 jobs in the United States, 100,000 of those directly in the shipyards that are building these American-built ships for the intercoastal and for the brown water, the river transportation, as well as the open ocean transportation. So we have got something here that is very important, and that is Make It In America, a better deal for Americans comes through the Jones Act. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Veasey very much for his remarks. Mr. Speaker, I notice that my colleague from Chicago, Ms. Schakowsky, is here once again to pick up on something we talked about earlier in our Make It In America agenda. If she would look here, number two on the Make It In America agenda is taxes. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) to talk about taxes.”