On the recordSeptember 29, 2010
The American middle class has been built on having jobs that allow families to pay their bills, to send their kids to college, to own a home, to save for their own retirement. The American middle class has been under assault; their wages declining, their jobs being outsourced and sent abroad. Our fundamental responsibility is to give folks who want to work the opportunity to work in jobs that are going to allow them to take care of their families. And if we stand by idly when a competitor country manipulates its currency to put our manufacturers, our workers, at a disadvantage, we are complicit in that. And this is the bare minimum of what we can do--give our workers, give our manufacturers, give our American middle class an even shot at the American Dream. This legislation is necessary, it's overdue, and it must be passed.
