Political Quotes

“Reestablish manufacturing. If manufacturing makes things, we've got to buy things. How do you buy things? You have money to buy it. And I've been supporting this for a very long time. I'm part of the Manufacturing Caucus. In addition, it's very important that we do as the WPA did during the time of the horrible aftermath of the Depression, and the Workforce Investment Act would be assisting 8 million people and give all of these people a chance to fix the infrastructure all across America. Cars will stop going into potholes, bridges will stop having cracks in them, and we will be able to put people to work. TANF, if it were fully funded and if it had an emergency contingency fund that many of us have been speaking about, this would make available--create temporary jobs for adults and summer jobs, but, more importantly, it would create 240,000 jobs. And the same thing with the infrastructure. Again, how many people have traveled with a limited amount of gas but traveled over bridges and freeways and found them in disrepair? This is a simple process.”