On the recordJune 30, 2010
This then resulted in Republicans in the House passing a bill. Where's it go then? We sent it to the Senate. What happened in the Senate? You needed 60 votes to pass it. And so what happened? The Democrats killed this in the Senate, just like they killed the energy bill in the Senate that was designed to help us with gas prices; just like they killed, as you know, gentlemen, the tort reforms in the Senate to reduce health care costs; just like, as you know, my friend from Arizona, they killed the associated health plans that we passed time after time here on the floor to try to allow small businesses to pool their employees to get a better price on health insurance. Now we were accused of doing nothing. We didn't do nothing. We sent a lot of legislation to the Senate where they didn't have 60 Republican votes, and it was killed by Democrats. Here's what happens here. But have we done anything about Freddie and Fannie? No. It's still hugely in debt, and we're just basically bailing it out all the time. What's the result of that going to be? It's going to be a lot of trouble. Here's one of the pains. This is what hurts, one, is unemployment. Look at the private-sector employment numbers here. Look at the red line. That's the public-sector employment. Have we created jobs? Sure have. We hired a whole lot of census workers. But the jobs that pay for the government are going down because these policies make a difference in peoples' lives.
