On the recordSeptember 13, 2011
Last week, the President came to this House and gave an historic address in a joint session about the American Jobs Act. There were things in his proposal that I felt really good about and some that I felt not so good about. But I'm going to support the President because our country needs jobs. People in my district need jobs. This is the way to provide jobs. You don't provide jobs by putting off EPA regulations, costing 350,000 lives by causing people to have breathing difficulties and asthma. Two friends of mine have had lung cancer and lost a lung. They may lose their life without a transplant, which also may put them in jeopardy of losing their lives. That's not the way you create jobs. You create jobs by giving people opportunities with summer youth programs and infrastructure jobs that create even more jobs. And tax breaks for small business. That's been offered. I hope we can come together in a bipartisan way. I watched the Republican debate last night, and one of the candidates suggested it was the ``Obama depression.'' I can't believe people are doing that. We just saw 9/11 and thought of the horrors. The unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused this Bush recession. ____________________
