Lloyd Doggett actually said...

"Threats of default on our debt and threats to shut down the government only set back our economic recovery and cost us more jobs."

"The unemployment rate in my state, 8.5 percent, stands higher today than at any time in the last quarter of a century."

"When folks lose a job through no fault of their own, the least we ought to do is extend a life line."

"And, really, if you look back over the decades through Republican administrations and Democratic administrations, when we have hit unemployment levels that are as high as they are today, have there us..."