Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'm confused. It doesn't take a lot to confuse me, but I'm confused today. The gentleman from Massachusetts consistently talks about the fact that there's been 281 days without a jobs bill. I want to know the definition of a jobs bill, because if you create jobs, my assumption is that we're talking about jobs bills. There is no question that the current legislation that we're talking about saves up to 316,000 jobs. I'm going to call that a jobs bill. There's no question that the free trade agreements create about one- quarter of a million jobs. Those are jobs bills. The Boiler MACT saves jobs, and Cement MACT saves jobs. So what we've done in this Congress, in this House, is talk consistently about how to rein in the regulatory environment to not only create jobs but to retain jobs. {time} 0930 So my perspective is simple: When you have legislation that comes before the House that actually creates jobs, those are jobs bills. It is not an ultimatum. The President's jobs bill is simply an ultimatum, do it all or nothing at all. There is no question about it that even the Senate cannot find cosponsors of the President's legislation and pass the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia, Mr. David McKinley. Mr. McKINLEY. I rise in support of the rule. As we stand here 30 years into this discussion on coal ash, H.R.…”