Mark Pocan

What you are doing by growing the economy, investing in infrastructure and research and development, having tax fairness in this budget that helps small business owners and middle class, and stopping the sequester that is hurting small…

Thank you, Representative Takano, again, for you leadership on this issue. As I said, you've authored one of the major letters that's out there talking about chained CPI and cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. And also, as a…

We did several press conferences this week. You're the author of a major letter from many people in this House about it. Could you just address a little bit about why you're so passionate about the need to make sure we have Social Security…

I think we should not have Social Security part of the budget.

I think that is the chained CPI proposal.

The small business tax credit for hiring new workers is going to be very valuable.

54,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin back when that happened.

The sequester is killing them on the NIH funding.

The economy and getting jobs is still the biggest focus.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Minnesota. As you said, we've heard from Representative Takano from California, from yourself and myself from the heartland, and now we have one of the most solid Progressives in the U.S. House, a…

Absolutely, Representative Ellison. We are very proud to be not only the creator of collective bargaining, but I believe also unemployment compensation and other great provisions for workers across America.

I just think as we look at what we are talking about, you know, so often people talk about whether you raise taxes or you cut spending...

54,000 jobs were saved or created just in the State of Wisconsin, thanks to those stimulus dollars.

If we can actually help to increase people getting to work and getting jobs and if they are paying taxes...

I think it is fair to say, too, that it reduced the unemployment rate during that period?

Speaker Boehner... offered them little more than the same stimulus policies that have failed to fix our economy.

I think we can do both.

If the car is about to run out of oil, we put oil in the tank rather than let it completely grind to a grinding halt.

Sequestration is bad; it would cut the good along with the bad, the effective and the wasteful. It is irresponsible.