Pete Sessions: “As my colleague was talking about the dismal results, I turned to my phone here and it is all green up and down on the…”

“As my colleague was talking about the dismal results, I turned to my phone here and it is all green up and down on the stock market, because the stock market knows that today we are talking about making permanent the things that work for the American people; things that work well for employers; things that work well for bringing stock market prices, not only back, but understanding that many, many Americans and our seniors across this country have invested in the stock market. It is up 40 percent since we have had an opportunity to pass the tax cut. The success of the free enterprise system is what my colleagues hate. They want to sell government, they want to sell defeat, they want to sell the things that are the fear about making progress. The facts of the case are real simple, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record an article from, of all places, The New York Times, that was dated August 3 of this year. On August 3, The New York Times, who does some inciteful reporting, said, ``Workers Hardest Hit by Recession Are Joining in Recovery.'' [From the New York Times, Aug. 2, 2018] Workers Hardest Hit by Recession Are Joining in Recovery (By Nelson D. Schwartz and Ben Casselman) The least educated American workers, who took the hardest hit in the Great Recession, were also among the slowest to harvest the gains of the recovery. Now they are a striking symbol of a strong economy.…”