On the recordJuly 27, 2010
I do, that's because I bleed orange and blue, and Mr. Ryan knows that, and I appreciate the recognition. And we're also joined by our good friend who has been a weekly staple of these important message hours where we're trying to communicate to our constituents and to people across the country and to our colleagues about the progress that we've been able to make that has been so significant and evident. One of the things that I wanted to highlight--Mr. Ryan, I'm not sure if you have gone over any of this--but I think an important chart that we usually begin with when we talk about the private sector that has been made, the private-sector employment increases over the past year and a half. And if you look December of 2007 all the way through to June of 2010, you can see the dramatic job losses that occurred during the Bush administration. The Bush administration ended right about here in January of 2009, and when President Obama took over, we at this point in the year passed the Recovery Act, the stimulus package that injected $787 billion into our economy, both in terms of an infusion of spending as well as tax cuts, 98 percent of Americans received a tax cut, mostly focused on tax cuts for small businesses and working families.
