Kevin Brady

Instead of 'focusing like a laser beam' on the unemployment crisis, President Obama and congressional Democrats have spent most of this year promoting misguided initiatives.

Today's employment report again is bad news for American workers.

The lack of job creation has caused an unemployment crisis for our country.

Congress and this White House are frightening the horses. It needs to stop, because it is the private sector, not the government, that will move America into a sound economic recovery.

The truth is the greatest hurdle to our recovery continues to be businesses' reluctant to add new workers with Washington contemplating higher health care costs, energy costs, more regulation, and new taxes.

The sooner I think Washington gets a handle on its debt which scares consumers, stops promoting higher taxes which scares businesses, and starts looking at real incentives for business investment, only then will the private sector be able…

Unemployment skyrockets far past White House projections and promises.

The deficit is becoming frightening and threatens our economic recovery.

It is appropriate for the American people to assess how well this Administration's economic policies are working. They are not. They have failed.

The U.S. has the worst performance in terms of unemployment rate among the major developed economies since the stimulus bill was enacted.

I fear that we may well be facing a 'job-loss' recovery as U.C.L.A. economist Lee Ohanian recently warned.

Clearly, we have a problem. Regarding the stimulus claims of 650,000 new jobs created or saved, there have been a series of investigative reports that reveal false reporting and corrupt data.

The truth is, this is President Obama's stimulus, it is his budget, it is his bailout, it is his housing programs, and it's time, I think, to take responsibility for those actions.

We do need to stop punishing success in this country.

This raises disturbing questions about the claims of the White House, and I think it underscores what we've said all along, that this Administration has lost all credibility about stimulus claims.

For American workers, a jobless recovery is no recovery.

Today's numbers are bad news for American workers. The unemployment rate has reached 10.2 percent, a 26-year high.

While some may promote the stimulus as the savior of the economy, it is a claim only the Balloon Boy's dad would make.

Even with today's positive news, this is no time to be conducting an end zone dance.

The stimulus is too slow, too wasteful, and too unfocused on jobs.

The deficit this year is nine times greater than when control of Congress moved from Republican to Democrat control.

Forty-nine out of fifty states have lost jobs since the stimulus took effect.

I believe the stimulus benefits are widely exaggerated.

A jobless recovery is no recovery for American workers.

Other countries are aggressively courting our investment.