Political Quotes

“I have to say that I was quite amazed and shocked yesterday to hear the proposal that certainly flies in the face of what I believe needs to be happening for Michigan and other States that have been the backbone of the manufacturing economy in our country, the backbone of the middle class. It was a proposal to turn our way of handling American jobs and the economy into a game show. We do not need a game show. We do not need prizes down at the end of some long line for doing what needs to be done in order to create innovation and be able to focus us on the next generation of advanced battery technology or any other technologies. What we need is something thoughtful and sustained, ongoing investments to create jobs in the United States. The last 8 years we have not seen that. We have not seen a willingness to step up and aggressively invest in advanced battery technology research or any other areas where we would be able to get the kind of jobs and production we need in the United States. I remind the Chair that, as he knows so well, just since January we have lost 325,000 good-paying jobs in America.”