On the recordJuly 1, 2010
Ladies and gentlemen out there in TV land, I could not go to sleep tonight until I got off my heart what has been on it, particularly over the last few days. What's on my heart is such pain and empathy for the people of this country who want to work but can't find a job, people who have worked all of their lives only to be caught victimized by the financial meltdown that took place in October of 2008. The biggest downturn since the Great Depression. Eight million jobs lost. Those are real jobs affecting real people, affecting their children, affecting their parents and grandparents; people who had been accustomed to being a part of the middle class and now they find themselves out of a job, out of work for an extended period of time. And, by the way, I must tell you that this portion of today's proceedings is a Special Order of the Progressive Caucus. And so these 8 million jobs were caused--or the loss of these 8 million jobs were caused by the shenanigans on Wall Street.
