Roy Blunt: “the No. 1 job of this Congress domestically should have been more private sector jobs. The President's long-held view of…”

“the No. 1 job of this Congress domestically should have been more private sector jobs. The President's long-held view of redistribution as a goal for the government is not going to accomplish that. What is going to accomplish that is more opportunity, more independence, as my friend from Arkansas just said, more certainty, more American energy. These problems are big, but they are not necessarily that complicated. We just have to have the willpower to deal with them. This Congress has not done that. This Senate, more importantly, has not done that. The House has passed bills. The House has passed a budget. The House has passed appropriations bills. The House has passed bills to get regulation under control. The Senate has not. I hope when we get back here--we should stay and do those things, but when we get back, we need to be focused on the No. 1 job for the country today, which is more American jobs. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from South Carolina. Mr. DeMINT. Mr. President, President Obama, when you took office almost 4 years ago, you promised to create jobs and reduce our deficit. Yet 4 years later we have fewer Americans working than in the last 30 years and we have historic debt and deficits. Now you say raising taxes will solve our problems. But those who create jobs disagree. Yesterday a businessman from South Carolina came to Washington to present a very simple proposition.…”