On the recordMarch 10, 2011
The American people want to know where are the jobs. After 10 weeks of controlling the House, Republicans have no plan to create jobs, no plan to spur our economic growth. Instead of listening to the American people and making jobs their number one priority, Republicans passed a budget that will result in 700,000 new layoffs. And what's the response? So be it. Taking food out of the mouths of hungry children by cutting WIC? So be it. Dropping 218,000 kids from the Head Start Program? So be it. Declaring a war on women by eliminating family planning services and punishing the one in five women across America who visit a Planned Parenthood clinic? So be it. Denying the extension of unemployment benefits to those who've reached that 99-week limit and are struggling to make ends meet? So be it. And now denying homeowners to stay in their homes, the help that they need, by eliminating programs to prevent foreclosures? So be it. The Republicans No Jobs, their So Be It agenda, it's a failure on all counts.
