On the recordJuly 17, 2012
As the Nation sits beneath 41 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent, it remains painfully clear that the President's policies have failed and have made our economy worse. ``Painful'' is, indeed, the operative word. As we slog through the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression, Americans continue to ask, ``Where are the jobs?'' More than 23 million of our fellow Americans are unemployed. Almost 500,000 net jobs have evaporated since the President's so-called ``stimulus'' was enacted, and entrepreneurship--that cornerstone of the American Dream--has reached a 17-year low. This is President Obama's record, and these facts do not lie. House Republicans have a plan for America's job creators to help get our Nation back to work. Dozens of bipartisan bills have passed the House and are sitting on Harry Reid's doorstep. It is time he and the Democratic-controlled Senate put the American people before politics and pass these bills. ____________________
