Political Quotes

“I listened to the statements made by my colleagues, and I have come to a different conclusion. I think this nominee is actually the wrong person at the worst time. At a time when the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, when 14 million Americans are looking for work, I would think the President would want to respond appropriately and nominate someone to lead the Commerce Department whose record was consistent with the mission outlined for the Commerce Department. That mission is to promote job creation, to promote economic growth, to promote sustainable development, and improve standards of living for all Americans. So I would think the President would want to nominate someone who has a record of robust job creation. Instead, the President has nominated someone whose political advocacy is, in my opinion, detached from the financial hardships facing tens of millions of Americans today. Most Americans recognize that cap and trade--or, as I call it, cap and tax--is job killing. It is a job-killing energy tax. Yet this nominee has repeatedly advocated for cap-and-trade legislation. He even called the Waxman-Markey legislation a moderate but acceptable bill. There are colleagues on the other side of the aisle who support that legislation. I do not. I view it as a tax. The nominee even went so far as to say the legislation was good precisely because it was a good way to hide--to hide--a carbon tax.…”