Louie Gohmert: “This is a deeply troubling time. And all of us know people who have lost their jobs and people who are endangered. I got…”

“This is a deeply troubling time. And all of us know people who have lost their jobs and people who are endangered. I got the message just earlier that Lone Star Steel shares a lot of employees in my district and Ralph Hall's districts, that, as I understand it, they were holding out, hoping that there would be true stimulus would be coming so that they could keep people working. But they've apparently indicated today they're letting 1,200 people go, suspending their employment. It appears, we've been hearing over and over from the Democratic leadership, and even from the President, people are losing jobs every day. And if this stimulus, so-called stimulus package, ``spendulous'' package, if it were really providing hope, then people wouldn't have been losing their jobs for the last year. They just wouldn't. People would have held on and said, the hope, the change, the help is coming that's going to help us keep providing jobs and open up new jobs and save these jobs. But they're getting it. And every day, people are being laid off because everything they've heard about the ultimate spending package is not providing hope. There's no hope. There's no change in this bill. It's a massive spending bill. And much of it, we'd heard before, is going to be spent in the next, well, 2 years or more from now. So that's very disconcerting.”