Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Ohio for his kind words. I appreciate his support, his public support--he did not speak specifically on the Casey-Brown-Baucus amendment, I do not believe; I had to step out for a moment, but I know he has said positive words about restarting, if you will, trade adjustment assistance, and with some expansion, not quite as good as it was 2 years ago, but still a very important program. I appreciate Senator Portman's words and his support of expanding it, and I hope he joins with some other Republicans in actually supporting the Casey-Brown-Baucus amendment. I particularly thank Chairman Baucus for his strong support of trade adjustment assistance. Senator Casey, especially, has pushed for this for, well, almost a year now, when in December we did everything but beg our colleagues to renew this program that helps workers who are unemployed through no doing of their own. In early 2009, we had written a very good trade adjustment assistance: If you lose your job because of a trade agreement, or if you lose your job because of trade, even if it is a service job--it used to just be manufacturing--you will get two things: One, you will get trade adjustment assistance so you can continue with your life and not get foreclosed on, you can continue to provide for your kids, and you can have a little bit of money to get retrained. I met a woman in Youngstown not too long ago who lost her manufacturing job to trade. She got TAA.…”