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Sean Duffy: I appreciate the gentleman from Colorado yielding, and I commend my colleagues for your hard work and the focus that you…

On the recordNovember 3, 2011
I appreciate the gentleman from Colorado yielding, and I commend my colleagues for your hard work and the focus that you have all had on jobs and job creation and legislation that's actually going to help move our economy forward. I think we're in a unique time in American history. If you look at where we're at and the level of competition that we are under from countries like China, India, Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, this is a whole new environment that we haven't seen before. It's not 1950, it's not 1980, it's not even the 1990s. This is a different form of competition. If we're going to be successful in this new environment, we have to do it right because if we get it wrong, you see massive unemployment. And as we came into this recession, I think the American people said to the President, We are willing to go along with you, Mr. President, if you tell us that we could spend a trillion dollars and from that you can take the pain away, you can create jobs with that kind of spending. If you tell us that we can pass a health care bill and that's going to create jobs, we can pass more regulation and that's going to create jobs, okay, Mr. President. We'll go along with you because the pain is too great. When one of my family members is out of work and I see the pain and suffering in their family, it's worth it, Mr. President. I will go with you.…
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Sean Duffy
Republican · Wisconsin
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Nov 3, 2011

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