Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for pointing that out. Because what we can see is that with that decades-long disinvestment in our infrastructure, not only do we have new needs, but we have the old ones, the old repairs stacking up. I am glad that you mentioned unemployment, because as the gentleman from Nevada mentioned, unemployment in so many areas is still up there. Now, across the country, I am proud to say that last week unemployment numbers were reported 7 percent--the lowest since November 2008, the lowest since when I first came into this Congress. In some ways, it has been despite us. I think the President, the administration, have done all of the things that they can do, the private sector that they can do. But think if we had those infrastructure investments. We could tick off 2 more percentage points on unemployment with a robust investment in this Nation's infrastructure. That is about building for the future; that is about building for the 21st-century economy. Yet here we are-- and as the gentleman from Nevada pointed out--unemployment benefits end for about 1.3 million people; 1.9 million Americans' unemployment will end December 28. Now, here we are in Congress--and we have taken a lot of breaks this year without creating any jobs, and we are about to take another one, another really long one--and on December 28 some of our Members will be finishing up their holiday leftovers.…”