On the recordJune 7, 2010
I welcome back my colleagues from their travels back home. It is always good to see them and my staff. I am grateful for all who are here working hard. I know we all benefit from seeing and speaking with our neighbors and constituents, honoring our Nation's bravest on Memorial Day, and talking about the good work we have done this year. We have really done a lot. Long overdue health care reform is now the law of the land. To show how much we have done, Norm Ornstein, one of the most celebrated pundits, columnists, journalists in all of Washington, reported a few weeks ago that this is the most productive Congress in the history of the country. That comes from someone who is not from the left or the right but someone who is a mainstream journalist in America today. The House and Senate have each passed bills to clean up Wall Street. Three million Americans who are going to work today have the Recovery Act to thank for their jobs. In Nevada, the Recovery Act created or saved more than 4,000 jobs in just the past 4 months alone. Again, that is in Nevada. But every time I go home, I am reminded how much more we have to do and become reenergized to do it. The work period between now and July 4 is short, but our to-do list is very long. We have to pass an emergency extension of unemployment benefits and other matters related to job creation, which will be in the bill that will be put on the Senate floor this afternoon.
