Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding. I commend him for his great leadership in terms of working and being a champion for America's working families, for America's middle-income families who need so much help at this time of this down economy. Mr. Speaker, this has been a very interesting week. Yesterday in the Capitol, hundreds of people looking for work came to the Capitol of the United States. They came because they knew that the day before unemployment insurance benefits had expired for people looking for work. They knew that by the end of December, unless this Congress acts, 2 million Americans will lose their unemployment insurance, 2 million Americans. This is the first time in American history when unemployment benefits would have been allowed to expire at this rate of unemployment. They came looking for jobs. They came in the spirit of fairness to say until we can find jobs, we need to continue unemployment insurance. And what they heard was that the Republicans in the Senate had said, if you want unemployment insurance, it has to be paid for. Well, they have paid into unemployment insurance. But we want to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America to the tune of $700 billion, and that doesn't have to be paid for. Now, I think we should use as a measure for everything that we do: What does it do to create jobs? What does it do to reduce the deficit?…”