Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleague from Georgia for yielding and for talking about this important issue. When we talk about jobs, today we had a long debate here on the House floor about unemployment. And, of course, if you look at what's been happening this last year and a half, the policies that have been brought forward by this President and by this leadership here and the people that are running this Congress, these policies have been creating a lot of the unemployment we have today; and you look, since the stimulus bill passed a year and a half ago that you and I opposed because we knew that it would be doing nothing other than growing the size of government, $787 billion of money that we didn't have, that was not only spent to grow the size of government, but the President said it had to be spent to keep unemployment from breaking 8 percent. Of course, now we are approaching 10 percent unemployment after that bill, after that massive amount of debt dumped onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. And then we look at more and more policies that have been coming since then that are eroding, eroding the economic base of this country. Of course, we are experiencing some very direct consequences firsthand in our State of Louisiana because of the President's ill- advised moratorium on energy exploration.…”