Political Quotes

“I thank the kind chairman, Mr. McDermott, for yielding me the 2 minutes. Sometimes when they say gentlewoman, I don't feel so gentle on the subject of unemployment. And in fact, I rise in strong support of this bill, which is long overdue because of the delays in the other Chamber. And I want to thank Chairman McDermott for his extraordinary leadership and our Speaker for bringing this bill forward. All the economic studies show that in fact direct consumer spending that results from the expenditure of unemployment checks on basics-- paying for food, paying your mortgage so you don't lose your home, making your car payment on that old jalopy you use to go to work--that, in fact, this creates the largest bang inside our economy to move it up than any investment we can make other than in infrastructure investment, where we are employing people building bridges, building roads, some of the things that people on the other side of the aisle are making fun of. It's no fun to go over a bridge that collapses. We saw that in Minnesota. These are issues that in a great Nation you take care of. In Ohio, we need unemployment compensation right now. We're one of the platforms that manufactures and grows jobs immediately to hold this country up. And our people, 100,000 of them, still remain out of work and utterly dependent on these benefits. They will be affected directly by the extension of these benefits.…”