Greg Walden: “We are proud of a lot of things in the great State of Oregon. Having the highest unemployment rate at 8 percent is not…”

“We are proud of a lot of things in the great State of Oregon. Having the highest unemployment rate at 8 percent is not among them. It is astounding to me to hear some of the Members on the other side of the aisle talk about unemployment insurance being a great economic producer. You are the people who have taken the jobs away from the people in Wallowa County: unemployment rate, 15.1 percent. It is your policies, yes, it is your policies who took away the jobs in Crook County: unemployment rate, 11.5 percent; Grant County, 14 percent. I will tell you the policies. Did you vote for the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 the day before yesterday? Did you? Did you? Did you? No. Maybe you voted for it. Did you?”