Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank the gentleman from California as well for his leadership on this issue, as well as others, and also behind us over here, the chairman of the full committee, Spencer Bachus, for his leadership on this issue as well as on the general issue of trying to do what we can do best in order to facilitate the greater liquidity and openness of credit in the marketplace. This bill is one step in that direction, so I commend both gentlemen for their efforts in that regard. I've been on the floor, I guess, for the last few days now, and I've heard Members from the other side of the aisle repeatedly coming to the floor, saying, Where are the jobs bills? We haven't had any jobs bills come through. Here is certainly one of the pinnacles of the jobs bills that we've been talking about that this House has passed already and that today we will pass going forward. What this bill will do is provide, as has already been indicated, to both small and big businesses the opportunity to get the wherewithal to start their businesses, grow their businesses, expand their businesses--and to do what after that? Create jobs. That's what this is all about. We just had a litany of people come to the floor, one right after the other, just as the sponsor of the bill has done. He is someone who started out with probably not much in his pockets but was able to get that all together and probably get some capital outside of that as well--and do what? Create a business.…”