Tom Harkin: “What is going on here? Sometimes you have to stop and say: What truly is going on here? We have lost touch with what is…”

“What is going on here? Sometimes you have to stop and say: What truly is going on here? We have lost touch with what is happening in America--to ordinary Americans, to the real middle class. What do we have here? We have Republicans who will not do anything until we have a tax break for the richest Americans--continue these tax breaks. I listened to my friend from South Dakota recently who was just on the floor talking about creating jobs and all that kind of stuff. Well, we just had the new unemployment figures come out this morning from the Labor Department--the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which says unemployment rose to 9.8 percent. But that is just the official unemployment figure.”