Keith Ellison: “Well, you know, all of us are looking for better days. You know, I can tell you that my constituents in Minnesota let me…”

“Well, you know, all of us are looking for better days. You know, I can tell you that my constituents in Minnesota let me know that we've been hit with the foreclosure crisis as well as stagnant wages, and I'm sad to report to you that the Nation's job market showed clear signs of recessionary conditions, as the jobless rate leapt up a half a percent in May alone from 5 percent to 5.5 percent. That's a lot of people, and that's according to our Bureau of Labor Statistics. And this monthly increase was the largest since the mid-1980s. It's been a while, pushing unemployment to the highest rate since 2004. I don't like to rattle the sabers in terms of the partisan divide, but I'm one, speaking only for myself, who's prepared to say that, you know, the Democrats have a better vision for how to run the economy, vision in terms of the energy future, vision in terms of trying to get some unemployment insurance extended so that people can have a little relief as they try to find that next hard-to-find job. But I think it's important that we see this thing in a broader context.”