Political Quotes

“I welcome back my colleagues and hope they are as eager to get to work as I am. During the week I spent in Nevada, I saw again how desperate our unemployment situation has become. As I talked to Nevadans, I heard over and over how they need us to help create conditions to help businesses create jobs. For example, I met one man in Reno who is 51 years old. He said he had never missed a payment on his home since he had bought it many years ago. He was going to this month because he was unemployed and couldn't find a job, and he had worked very hard to try to find a job. But now, like 14 percent of Nevadans, he is out of work and can't find a new job. There are just too many people looking for too few jobs. Now he cannot make his mortgage payment, as I have indicated. He is the kind of person we need to keep in mind when we talk about creating jobs. His family is the kind of family we need to keep in mind when we talk about helping the unemployed with emergency aid. This man knows he will not get rich off his unemployment check, but it might help him keep a roof over his head. Those unemployment benefits we are working to extend--for every job that becomes available, five people line up for that job. And for every $1 we spend in unemployment benefits, $1.61 is returned to the economy because that money is spiraled into doing a lot of good things because they can pay their rent, make their house payment, buy some clothes.…”