Bob Beauprez: “I have met payroll. I have created jobs. Most recently I was CEO and president and chairman of a bank. I am kind of…”

“I have met payroll. I have created jobs. Most recently I was CEO and president and chairman of a bank. I am kind of prone to analyzing things and getting a basis of comparison, the ``compare to test'' I call it. Compared to what? Folks are talking about how bad things are. Well, I have done a little reading. I think my colleagues in this Chamber, all of us, do quite a lot of reading, and I have found a few things that I think are fairly interesting. Specifically, there has been a lot of talk lately about how great everybody else is, and especially our friends over in Europe, how good they are doing. Well, I was in Europe. In fact, I was in France last May, not quite a year ago, representing this great body as a representative of the United States Congress at a conference on terrorism and the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe. And I witnessed for myself how ``good'' they are doing. They were not doing all that great, as a matter of fact, Mr. Speaker.”