Political Quotes

“Madam President, I thank the Senator from North Dakota. I will close. I wish Senator Dorgan had said there would have been more attention to the fact that the Lordstown plant, which has been there for 30 years, has added a shift of more than 1,000 workers and all that means for the supply chain and all the other jobs created. But I wish more than that they could have heard the stories of individual workers and what it meant to be called back to work, what it meant to get this new job, what it meant so their house would not be foreclosed on, that they now have health insurance, that they now are able to send their kid to college. Those are the stories that matter-- 1,100 people in good-paying industrial jobs, plus thousands of other supporting jobs, and those peoples' lives are a whole lot better because people in this body had courage to stand up to the naysayers and say: We need to invest in this industry, invest in American manufacturing and make this country strong. I thank the Presiding Officer. I thank especially Senator Landrieu, who will take the floor in a moment, for her leadership on this small business bill. We know that two out of three jobs are created by small business. No one has worked harder on that than the senior Senator from Louisiana, Ms. Landrieu. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Louisiana.”