Political Quotes

“I serve a county where the unemployment rate is 17.1 percent. I serve multiple counties that have double digit unemployment. That is why I rise today in strong support of the Jackson amendment to restore funding for programs that help jobless Americans. I guess some people think that things are so good that we do not have any dislocated workers to worry about. I would invite the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Istook) and others to come to my district in southern Ohio and see the conditions there, come and talk with one of the 800 coal miners who are about to lose their jobs in a region that suffers 10.5 percent unemployment, miners who are awaiting word today on a job-training grant they view as their best hope for future employment. I would like for them to come and talk to one of the 550 union workers from the Goodyear plant who lost their jobs last summer and are now back in school thanks to a Federal dislocated workers grant. Without further education, how can they ever expect to land a job in a county with an unemployment rate over 11 percent?”