Paul Ryan: “I simply want to lend my support and echo the sentiments of the gentleman from Maryland and the gentleman from Ohio on…”

“I simply want to lend my support and echo the sentiments of the gentleman from Maryland and the gentleman from Ohio on the fact that more does need to be done than what we are just doing here today. Few times have I had the opportunity to see an issue that is bipartisan, where labor and management can agree on things and come together to work for a common purpose for our country and for the workers of America. That is something that is important, and that is something that we need to advance, and that is why more needs to be done. Multi-employer plans, mortality table rate reform, those things are important; and we need to pass legislation to do that, but this bill right here does need to pass. This bill needs to pass because this is about jobs, and I know this is pretty complicated. It is a difficult issue to get our arms around; but what it basically means is if this bill does not pass, millions of dollars, billions of dollars that are coming through corporations because of the economic recovery that is beginning, that is under way, instead of creating jobs and hiring people will go into artificial pension payments, and that is not good.”