The gentlelady from Alabama is exactly right. Thank you for your leadership on the economy, on getting this country turned around, and getting our businesses back in shape to hire once again. Over the past couple of years since being elected, I've traveled over 65,000 miles to be in every nook and cranny of the district of eastern Colorado and northern Colorado. We've held 74 town meetings to make sure that we are listening to everybody's voices, to make sure that people have an opportunity to address their concerns, their ideas to make our government better, to make our economy grow and healthy once again. The points that you talk about, I don't know that anything is more relevant in the conversations that we have today than the point that was made at a town meeting just last week in Julesburg, Colorado, up in northeastern Colorado. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the panhandle of Nebraska. A young lady raised her hand and said: I'm a single mom. I have three kids at home. I've had two jobs. Now I only have one. I'm looking for a second one. I can't make ends meet because my job doesn't pay enough, and energy prices continue to increase. She's trying to find health care for her children. Talk about somebody who is the front lines of our economy who is suffering because of the past 3\1/2\ years of failed economic policies.…
On the recordSeptember 10, 2012
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