Political Quotes

“First of all, I'm glad that the majority leader came to the floor to talk about jobs. This set of bills is not a jobs bill. To call it that is a pure smoke screen. I quoted Mark Zandi before: ``I don't think it's meaningful in terms of jobs. It's more trying to clean up something that needs cleaning up.'' That's the 3 percent withholding bill. The Majority Leader called upon the Senate to act, to act on bills that essentially would allow mercury to continue to be accessible. And other bills that are called jobs bills, deregulation where it's necessary to regulate, that's a jobs bill? And the Majority Leader called again on the Senate to act. We haven't had a single hearing here in the House on the President's jobs bill. Not a single hearing. The President has proposed to cut the payroll tax in half for 98 percent of the businesses. A complete payroll tax holiday for adding workers; extending 100 percent expensing, not a single hearing on that. Preventing up to 280,000 teacher layoffs, not a single hearing on that. Don't call on the Senate. The majority leader should call on the House himself and the committees to hold hearings on these bills. The infrastructure bill, a bipartisan national infrastructure bank, not a single hearing. And then unemployment insurance, at the end of this year, in next month, a million people will lose their unemployment benefits if we don't act and extend the Federal program; and a million and a half by mid-February.…”