Political Quotes

“I was presiding earlier today before the Senator from North Carolina. I listened to Senator Boxer talk about the importance of this Transportation bill, this highway bill, which I underscore. This week we have seen movement on extension of the payroll tax and tax cuts and unemployment benefits, two very important things--with the doctors fix too--very important things to keep our economy moving. It made me think back what has happened in the last couple of years. In 2009, when Senator Obama became President Obama, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month in the United States. We know what was happening, especially to manufacturing and especially in States such as the Presiding Officer's, North Carolina, and my State of Ohio. In fact, we had for 12 years-- every single year for 12 years--from 1997 to 2009, we had lost manufacturing jobs every single year in Ohio and in the United States. But after President Obama took office, we passed the Recovery Act, we did some other things, the health care bill, all of that. We have begun to see, month after month after month, job growth. Not job growth that we want yet, not the kind of strong job growth we want. But for 21, 22 consecutive months we have seen more manufacturing jobs than the month before, including my State of Ohio--more manufacturing jobs every single month than the preceding month for 20, 21, 22 months in a row. Why is that? There are a lot of reasons. No.…”