On the recordMarch 17, 2010
The statistics show that the number one issue for Americans today is jobs, without question. And that health care reform, while it is important to you and me and all of the Republicans and everyone in the House, for that matter, it's only, like, number five or even lower than that on the list. Americans see that the imperative right now is to get jobs back, and we're using a job-killing bill. How in the world are you going to get private insurance if you don't have a job to begin with? A recent poll by CNN--and certainly I don't think anybody could ever claim that CNN is a hard-right institution--says that 75 percent of Americans feel that we should either scrap this bill completely, throw it away and forget about it, or scrap it and start over again. So the American people, as you say, three to one, don't like this bill, and they don't want to see it or hear of it again.
