On the recordFebruary 28, 2012
The Senator is absolutely correct. We need more jobs in America. I congratulate the Obama administration for turning our economy around. We have had 23 consecutive months of private sector job growth, but we don't have enough jobs yet. We have to create more jobs. Now is the time to be bold on looking for responsible programs that can move this country forward and creating more jobs, not only initially in road construction, in bridge construction and transit construction, but making us more competitive for the future and creating permanent job growth for America, jobs that cannot be exported. That is what we should be doing, and that is why the surface transportation bill is so important for us to bring up and debate and pass. And, quite frankly, the Senator from California had performed something unprecedented--well, not unprecedented but unusual here--in that she got bipartisan support from three committees, and we are working on the fourth now. Senator Boxer has gotten all the committees together, and so it is time to move this bill forward for jobs throughout America.
