"That's not the spirit of this country. That's not the country that I grew up in."
"Frankly, no matter how many hearings we hold it will not be enough, because there are 14.9 million unemployed Americans, and the damage done to them, their families, and their communities is unending."
"We want, again, every single American working."
"I had one of the most interesting experiences about three weeks ago in Baltimore in my District where we hired 50 police officers who would not have been hired, who would not have been hired, if it we..."
"The HIRE Act, signed in March, is creating some 300,000 jobs by rebuilding America's infrastructure."
"I associate myself with his words."
"Maybe he will be a breath of fresh air coming in."
"Folks have got to put the partisanship aside, Madam Chair."
"One job lost is one job too many."
"I would venture to guess that there are parts of my District where the African American male unemployment rate is 45 to 50 percent."
"Today's hearing is yet another reminder why we must build upon the success of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or risk a backslide into conditions like those we saw earlier this year when we..."
"Today's jobs report shows employers cut 11,000 jobs in November, the smallest decline since the recession began."