Political Quotes

“we are going to be leaving Washington, D.C. this afternoon and going back to our home districts, and it saddens me that we are leaving Washington without extending the unemployment benefits that are so desperately needed by so many unemployed Americans. Just in Ohio alone, since George W. Bush became President of our country, we have lost 236,000 jobs, and 170,000 of those jobs have been high-wage jobs with good benefits. Across the Nation, some 3 million jobs have been lost under the President's watch, making him the first President since Herbert Hoover to actually have a net loss of jobs during his tenure as President. That makes it all the more troubling to me that with so much job loss in our country and so many unemployed workers in my State of Ohio, that we would leave Washington, D.C. for this extended vacation without extending unemployment benefits to our unemployed constituents. The fact is that in Ohio alone, already, 31,300 workers have exhausted their benefits; and between now and June, this will be 2,200 workers per week who will have exhausted their unemployment benefits. In my region of eastern Ohio in the Steubenville area, 380 workers have already exhausted their benefits; and by the end of June, that number will swell to 700 workers. Mr. Speaker, these statistics are not merely numbers; they represent workers. They represent the heads of households.…”