Rob Andrews

This committee, this majority has not spent 1 hour on that proposal in the last month.

I would again like to thank the panel for obviously a lot of time preparing for this morning and very, very good testimony.

But you would admit that there are 2.4 million new private sector jobs since the health care law was signed?

We talked about two Americans today. And we didn't talk about one American. We talked about the American who has a $33,000 a month drug bill who is hemophiliac, which is just stunning.

I think the chairman deserves credit, a lot of credit, for focusing the committee, and the country hopefully, on that discussion.

You can't decide where to allocate your resources if you don't know where they are going already.

I hear that we are all moving in the same direction, which is good.

If we don't have the right people, if we can't recruit and retain the right people, this is not going to work.

Reclaiming my time, the President's plan was a small business that creates jobs will get a tax cut. Will you vote for that?

Reclaiming my time, will the gentleman vote for the President's tax cuts for small businesses that create jobs if they hire someone?

I did want to ask my friend from Georgia a question, Mr. Speaker, if I might. He says he's on the right track. Will the gentleman agree that we should have an up/down vote on the President's jobs plan on this floor?

I thank my friend for yielding. Tomorrow will be yet another Friday without a paycheck for too many Americans. For many Americans, this may be the week that their unemployment benefits finally run out and they have no income left…

Reclaiming my time, would the gentleman agree, though, we should use some Federal funds for that purpose?

Reclaiming my time, does the gentleman favor the provision that says we should put teachers who have been laid off back in the classroom?

America has had an economic disaster and a natural disaster. The economic disaster is 15 million people unemployed, and then we had the natural disasters of August. This bill tries to help the natural disaster get solved by making the…

There are 15 million unemployed Americans.

If you exclude the OCO [Overseas Contingency Operations] accounts, the overseas accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you look at real dollar defense budgets, the defense budget is 40 percent higher than it was in 2001 in real dollars.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 238, nays 186, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No. 711]…

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the leader who's leading the fight against outsourcing and for collective bargaining, the minority leader of the House Democrats, the gentlelady from California (Ms. Pelosi).

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to a daughter and sister in a union family who doesn't forget where she came from, the gentlelady from New York (Mrs. McCarthy). Mrs. McCARTHY of New York. I thank my colleague. Mr. Speaker, I rise…

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to a very persuasive voice against outsourcing, my friend from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).

At this time it is my honor to yield 1 minute to a gentlelady who has been a fierce advocate for jobs for New York City but, more importantly, for all of America, the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Clarke).

At this time I am pleased to yield 1 minute to a gentlelady who favors job creation over outsourcing, the gentlelady from Hawaii (Ms. Hanabusa).

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to a person who understands the international implications of economic growth and collective bargaining, my good friend from California (Mr. Berman).

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, when one listens to the back-and-forth in this debate, there's a lot of different points and I'm sure some confusion that flows from that. But the debate's really pretty simple, and it's…