Mike Pence: “I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his outstanding leadership. This is a challenging time in the life of this…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his outstanding leadership. This is a challenging time in the life of this country. Families are hurting, businesses in the city and on the farm are struggling. It's the worst recession in the last 25 years, and from Washington, D.C., failed economic policies. So what do you do after your Big Government stimulus bill is a failure? Well, apparently the answer in this Congress is pass another one. Really, seriously. About a year and a half ago, with the support of this administration, Democrats in Congress passed a $1 trillion stimulus bill. Unemployment was at 7.5 percent, and we were told we had to borrow $1 trillion from future generations of Americans for this liberal wish list of spending priorities or unemployment would go over 8 percent. Unemployment now, as we all know, is hovering at a painful 10 percent. But after the stimulus bill was passed and failed, we came to March of this year, and the Democrats' answer was pass another stimulus bill built on the same economic policies, the HIRE Act, $17.6 billion. And now after the 'stimulus' bill and after 'son of stimulus' bill, we are now considering 'grandson of stimulus,' and the American people are getting tired of it. Democrats literally want us to take the same failed economic policies of this administration of the last year and a half and spend another $102 billion.”