Political Quotes

“Unlike most of my Republican friends, I get strong support from organized labor, and I am proud of that. I come from a working class family and understand the needs of working class people. I had a group of steelworkers in today asking me about what I was going to do on fast track. I asked them this question: Where has the AFL-CIO been on the one million union jobs that have been lost in this country because of this administration's cuts in defense and aerospace? Now, we have heard Members get up and rale about the loss of decent paying wages and how critical that is. One million U.S. union jobs were lost in the past 6 years from cutbacks in defense and aerospace budgets. The AFL-CIO did not issue a peep. Union workers, steelworkers who were building the ships at Bath Iron Works, UAW workers who were building the C-17, people who were building the F/A-18-Cs and Ds, all of these cutbacks that have occurred across the country were with union plants. Where was the AFL-CIO? Where was that on the rating card of rating Members of Congress on their votes?”