Political Quotes

“Madam President, I appreciate the comments of the Senator from California. She is on the floor today with Senator Inhofe--unlikely peas in a pod, one pretty liberal, one pretty conservative, very different views--to talk about job creation, infrastructure, building highways and bridges and public transit, and job creation. As so often is the case, people on the other side want to change the subject. In my State, the elections 1\1/2\, 2 years ago were all about lost jobs, about lost manufacturing jobs that, frankly, accelerated during the Bush years, and we finally turned that manufacturing job loss around. We have seen 20 straight months of job increases in manufacturing. But the legislature in Columbus, my State capital, and the Governor, what are they doing? They are not fighting for job creation. They are going after workers' rights and women's rights--the heartbeat bill, pretty extreme--instead of focusing on job creation. That is what I came to discuss on the Senate floor today too--not specifically on this bill but another infrastructure bill, which I will get to in a moment. The comment I heard from Senator Barrasso, only from the end of his discussion, was that he wants to repeal the health care law. How do they tell a 23-year-old who now is on her mother's insurance, who is without a job and doesn't have insurance, that she is going to lose her insurance she has through her mother's insurance?…”