Maurice Hinchey: “Do you plan to keep in place the current policies that essentially prohibit new off-reservation gaming operations, or…”

We have now gone 11 weeks and still there hasn't been any action in committee or on this House floor on anything resembling a jobs plan from our friends here in the majority. In fact, we've seen just the opposite. Economists are estimating…

We are introducing legislation that would require that process to come back.

I regard it as a very important issue.

the growth is very, very slow, and the unemployment rate is still 9 percent.