Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the Congresswoman, my friend from Florida, for bringing us together tonight to talk about just the very positive signs that we're seeing in our economy, the positive signs that have really come from the policies enacted by this Congress over the past 17 months since I've come to Congress. And I wanted to kind of go back to my colleague from Pennsylvania (Mr. Altmire) when he was talking about the GDP numbers and this is, I think, just a great graph to show. You were talking about in 2009, the first quarter, we saw a drop, 6.4 in GDP, just over 6 points there. And that was prior to the President taking over and us just coming into our 111th Congress. And here, with the policies that we've enacted, this shows the fourth quarter of '09, almost 6 points increase. And you can definitely see the change in GDP in the final years of the Bush administration to the first year in the Obama administration and the 111th Congress, very stark numbers here showing the difference. I think one of the most exciting things that I've seen is the manufacturing increases. And you mentioned that, Mr. Altmire, the fact that we are seeing manufacturing increase in this country, the largest 10-month gain since 1997. And I think there's so many of us here who believe we've got to be making things in this country.”