Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Norcross). I really appreciate his heartfelt words. I thank him for telling us about his journey, employment, and how much electricians mean to this country, and other people that work with their hands. I think it is sad that in a lot of our public schools that type of work has been--quite frankly, there is no other way to say it--some of it has been put down. But those workers are important. We need to stop having people rank jobs and make sure that we know that all jobs in this country are important. Since 2000, the United States has lost about 4.8 million manufacturing jobs. That is a 29 percent decrease in jobs for blue- collar workers. Again, manufacturing jobs are good-paying jobs. Manufacturing jobs pay about 20 percent higher than service jobs do. So any manufacturing job that we lose in this country is bad. One of the saddest stories--and there are so many sad stories about these plants that have closed down, and so much of the focus has been on the Rust Belt, and rightfully so. And Marcy Kaptur may tell me if I am pronouncing the name of this city correctly. But there is a story about the closing of a Rubbermaid facility in a place called Wooster, W-O-O-S-T-E-R. They said that they were shutting down this Rubbermaid facility in Wooster, Ohio, but they were going to keep the big outlet mall open.…”