Political Quotes

“As I listened today, I listened to some enormously bipartisan commentary about jobs. As Mr. Waxman knows, our ranking member, we have been working on creating jobs for a very long time. Democrats are hoping for a vote in the other body on the President's American Jobs Act. In the last Congress, although we documented 3 million jobs, I can assure you that our stimulus package created millions of jobs unrecorded because it was emergency funding that did not require that recording. My amendment speaks to clarity, and it is not conflicting with jobs. For those of you who are listening to this debate, it's about the industrial boiler industry. They do have jobs. And I, frankly, believe that the regulations that they have lived with do not impair their ability to promote jobs. What most people don't know is there is an indefinite language, or allows an indefinite time frame for noncompliance. There's no time line for the industry to comply with clean air rules impacting our children, just like this little one being seen by a nurse, suffering from any number of respiratory illnesses. So the bill, in its current form, also gives the EPA discretion to go beyond 5 years. You know how long that is? That may be job-killing time, because when businesses look to move to areas, even if they're older industry, they want to know that there is an effort made to create a better quality of life. This amendment will help the industry.…”