Thomas Daschle: “I was moved by the comments, by the reports, by the emotion I felt as I talked to people whose businesses, whose jobs…”

“I was moved by the comments, by the reports, by the emotion I felt as I talked to people whose businesses, whose jobs, are perhaps more precarious than they have been for years. All the statistics bear that out. Consumer confidence is the lowest in 10 years, the number of those unemployed going up by millions in the last 2 years; every economic indicator is pointing to the growing crisis we face in the economy. Yet what do we do? We find ourselves once again most likely scheduled for the entire week, debating 1 job rather than the 2.5 million jobs lost just in the last 2 years alone.”