Roy Blunt: “What has happened, Mr. Speaker, in the last week, is that 100,000 layoff announcements have been issued. I do not know…”

“What has happened, Mr. Speaker, in the last week, is that 100,000 layoff announcements have been issued. I do not know how many fewer of those would have been announced if we had acted last week, but I think fewer than that. And if we do not act this week, there will be more layoffs next week. We have had a whole week to discuss this bill. People have suggested that was not a bipartisan process. I can seldom think of a time in the House, in the few years I have been here, of a more bipartisan process, where the minority leader in the House, the Speaker of the House, the two leaders of the other body both agreed totally on what was going to go in this bill. That does not mean they think that is the only thing that needs to be done, nor should anybody suggest for a minute that anybody on this floor thinks this will be the last thing that is done.”