Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Horsford) and Mr. Jeffries again both for convening the Congressional Black Caucus, under your leadership and the leadership of our chairwoman, the honorable Marcia Fudge, and to be joining here on the floor, at least to date, with our colleague from New York, our colleague from North Carolina and our colleague from New Jersey, which is clearly showing the vast depth of this particular crisis going from South to North and to the far western State of Texas. Let me say to those who are presently unemployed, the 72,000 a week that occurs as we stand on the floor of the House, that you can count on the Members on this floor, the Democratic Members, the Congressional Black Caucus and our good friends on the other side of the aisle, to recognize that this is not a partisan issue but an American issue. Just a few weeks ago, or just last week, in fact, I had in the Houston Chronicle an op-ed that said the number one job of the House is to extend emergency unemployment aid. The program will help the economy by creating jobs and boosting growth. I think it is important to emphasize and refute some of the negative stigma that comes from those who misunderstand what the unemployment benefit--or unemployment insurance, let's use that word--means. It means that individuals have actually worked. They are working people.…”