Jerry Moran: “Both sides of the aisle agree that the top three priorities for this Congress are jobs, jobs, jobs. But when you look at…”

“Both sides of the aisle agree that the top three priorities for this Congress are jobs, jobs, jobs. But when you look at what the new majority wants to do with the Federal budget, you really have to wonder, are they serious? Now in the private sector, we've actually seen job growth for the last 12 months, 36,000 more jobs last month. But we've lost hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs. And what should be of most concern to all Americans is that since 2008, more than 200,000 public sector jobs in the education arena--primarily teachers--have been lost; and at that very same time, student enrollment has gone up by 750,000 students. So you lose 200,000 educators while student enrollment goes up 750,000? That's our seed corn for our future. And what's going to happen with this new budget that we will be debating next week is that it is going to be far worse than anything we could have imagined, and that will hurt the future of this great country.”