Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the reckless spending plan in H.R. 1. Mr. Speaker, it has been 43 days since I joined the new Congress, and my colleagues across the aisle have not offered one job, let alone offered a jobs plan to put Americans back to work. While hardworking Americans struggle to keep a roof over their head, food on the table, and the heat turned on, my colleagues have not taken one single action to create jobs for the unemployed. They have completely abandoned the number one issue for the American people right now--jobs and the unemployment rate--and in fact, they are blatantly destroying, instead of creating, good jobs. In fact, the Speaker recently said, ``Over the last 2 years since President Obama has taken office, the Federal Government has added 200,000 new Federal jobs,'' greatly exaggerating, citing a number 10 times greater than what has actually been reported. He said, ``If some of those jobs are lost in the spending cuts, so be it.'' Mr. Speaker, under the Republican plan, jobs are the target of the cuts. For example, the largest cuts ever in history for education programs under H.R. 1 would result in more than 26,000 K-12 teachers and support staff, 14,000 Head Start teachers, and 7,000 special ed teachers all losing their jobs. This is just the education budget alone. According to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, the Republican continuing resolution would cost the Nation almost 1 million jobs.…”