Political Quotes

“first, I want to talk about our growing economy. I listened to my colleague's comments, the Senator from Wyoming, about the importance of the tax legislation. I couldn't agree with him more. I think it is stimulating not just economic growth but higher wages and more jobs. I also want to talk about the need for us to connect to those jobs the Americans who are not currently employed. Then I want to talk about some very shocking, new information we have about why people are outside of the workforce. We just had a good jobs report from April. It showed a steadily growing economy. It showed unemployment at 3.9 percent. That is the official number, but that is the lowest the official number has been since the year 2000. In my home State of Ohio, there was a recent survey done by PNC Bank--it has been doing this for 9 years--that asked small- and mid- sized companies: What is your level of optimism about the future? They said their business optimism has been at record levels for the past 9 years. So there is something going on that is very good in the economy. If you talk to the small business community, the National Federation of Independent Business survey shows the same thing, not just optimism but also a sense that companies are getting ready to invest even more. So there are some good things going on in our economy.…”