Political Quotes

“I thank the ranking member, and I thank the chairman as well. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) and I have worked together on the immigration issue. And I would beg to differ. It is well documented that regularized individuals in certain industries would, in fact, create jobs and create investment into this country as well. But as you have one person working, that person generates the opportunity for another. In construction jobs, for example, when you are involved in construction and have the right trained person, it creates expanded jobs. But I also want to make mention that as it may have been cited, the 600 jobs lost because, allegedly, of a CBO report, I know that 500 jobs have been lost because of a merger between two major giants in the aviation industry. And, frankly, I am hopeful that we could focus on whether that is one of the diminishing aspects of mergers, that individuals do lose jobs. But I will also say to you that we have documentation here that 1.1 million private sector jobs have been created since the enactment of health care reform. I mentioned 3 million jobs in my statement; 1.1 million private sector jobs have already been created; 207,000 jobs in the health care industry have been created since the enactment of the health care reform. Under the past administration, President Bush, 673,000 private sector jobs were lost, and this was the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…”