Political Quotes

“the real outrage of my feeling here tonight is best expressed by what this President and his party are doing to those workers who work in the defense and science technology base of this country. Here is a President talking about job creation, and here are national AFL-CIO leaders saying, ``We are going to take a dollar a month out of your check and put it into a $35 million fund to defeat freshmen Republicans so that we can create jobs.'' Where were those big labor leaders, Mr. Speaker, when this President decimated defense spending? Over the past 3 years 1 million men and women in this country have lost their jobs. Now were these minimum wage jobs? No, they were jobs represented by the UAW, by the International Association of Machinists, jobs represented by the Electrical Workers, by the building trades who build and construct the base housing and the facilities on our military bases. They were jobs held by building trades and teamsters and machinists and boilermakers who build our ships and UAW workers across the country. This President's cuts in defense spending eliminated 1 million of those jobs.”