Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. We talk about unemployment in this country--over 8 percent, 9.1 percent nationally. Let me tell you the story in my district in Colorado, the two largest communities: 10.7 percent unemployment in Pueblo, Colorado; 10.5 percent in Grand Junction, Colorado. I have 29 counties in Colorado. We have one county that has higher than 17 percent unemployment. There's a lot of discussion on this floor in Washington, DC, about jobs and the economy, and it's well placed. We talked about businesses. But what we often forget to remember is that these businesses are made up of moms and dads, grandparents, people with hopes, with dreams for a better future. These are the employers, the people who make America work, working together in business. Let me tell you a story about a man named Jim Bartmus in Pueblo, Colorado. Just about a month ago, Mr. Bartmus, who was a contractor, was faced with a real dilemma. Just a few years ago he qualified under the President's definition as wealthy. A small contractor. That wealth he reinvested back into his business to try and grow it, to try and create more jobs in this country. Mr. Bartmus made that investment. He paid down his line of credit to zero. When he went to the bank to re-up that line of credit to be able to keep that business going, to keep his 24 core employees at work, he discovered that, because of regulations, because of Dodd-Frank, that he couldn't get that line of credit re-upped once again.…”