Dave Camp: “I think it's odd so many speakers today have begun all their remarks with a look-back and attempt to re-litigate history…”

“I think it's odd so many speakers today have begun all their remarks with a look-back and attempt to re-litigate history and are sort of picking selective parts of history. The fact is, when this budget was balanced there was a Republican Congress, yes, with a Democrat President. Maybe we ought to try that combination again. But let me just say, the people back home are concerned about today. They're concerned about the problems today, not re-litigating what may have been or might have been. Back home in Michigan, unemployment is nearly 14 percent; nationwide, nearly 10 percent. The fact is now, today--not in the 1980s, not in the 1990s, not in the Bush administration--today we've lost 700,000 manufacturing jobs, and the fact is employers in America have said this bill will hurt jobs; this will not help us create private sector jobs. And we have group after group that has come forward and said this bill hurts jobs. That's why I urge a 'no' vote.”