Bill Pascrell: “We have short memories here. Ten years is a long time to remember, I will admit that, but it took the last…”

“We have short memories here. Ten years is a long time to remember, I will admit that, but it took the last administration in 2001 and in 2002--the first 2 years of that administration--to finally get us into the plus on private jobs. You don't know what you're talking about. Mr. Speaker, we have selective memory here. This legislation is about private jobs. They voted ``no'' on everything. They voted ``no'' on the stimulus. And yet the reports in the last 2 days indicate without that stimulus we would have been deep in, not only recession, but depression. Not our economists on this side of the aisle, our economists have concluded that. There now have been six straight months of private sector job growth. I'm not making these numbers up. It's the truth. Challenge them. I'll wait 10 seconds. Now that I've waited 10 seconds, the data is clear. We all know that there is more work to be done. No one's saying that this is a perfect place for us all to be. That is why I strongly support the Invest in America Jobs Act.”