Issue Position: Jobs & the Economy

Issue Position

Spur job creation. Grow our economy.

More taxation, regulation, and litigation will not create more jobs. Government takeovers of the economy have failed while the size and the scope of the federal government has exploded. Washington has tied the hands of small business owners and job creators with onerous regulations and backward fiscal policies that have stalled the economy, slowed innovation and destroyed jobs. We need common sense, pro-growth policies to give small businesses and entrepreneurs renewed confidence in our economy and to remove Washington as the roadblock to job creation.

Nevada and America are at a crossroads and House Republicans are committed to taking every possible step to spur job creation and get our economy back on track so that Americans can do what they do best: create, innovate and lead. Our governing agenda is focused on job creation and economic growth. It will address our economic challenges, foster innovation and investment, and help job creators without raising taxes on working families and small business owners.

The House has passed 27 bi-partisan jobs bills, which are stuck in the Senate. Download a copy of the plan here, or read about our solutions at gop.jobs.gov.

End job-killing policies

Nevadans don't want more of a political agenda. They want policies that bring real job creation.

The first step toward recovery is admitting that you have a problem. The administration needs to admit that its policies of record spending, uncontrolled debt, excessive regulations, and the threat of higher taxes are not the solution. They are the problem.

From February 2009, when the President's "stimulus" was signed into law, through October 2011, the economy has shed 2,047,000 jobs -- an average of 62,030 jobs lost each month. The administration claimed national unemployment would be 6.5 percent today if the stimulus was enacted. According to the latest BLS figures, it is 9 percent.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of that failed program will reach $825 billion and interest on the debt will be at least $347 billion. As of September 2011, unemployment in Nevada is 13.4% -- the highest in the nation.

Our country now ranks 13th in the world for 'ease of starting a business' according to a World Bank report. In 2007, we ranked third. Stymieing entrepreneurship is not going to get people back to work.

This year, the Republican majority in the House passed numerous pieces of legislation to liberate job creators from the destructive polices of the administration. Twenty-seven of those bills, which would foster economic growth and job creation, are stuck in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Senate stalls while there are:

1,293,000 job seekers who are new to the workforce and have yet to find a job. The number of new workers who cannot find a job has been above one million for two years.

5,876,000 Americans unemployed and searching for work for more than 27 weeks in the month of October. Since President Obama took office, the number of people unemployed for more than 27 weeks increased by 139 percent.

45,837,824 Americans receiving food stamps -- the most in any month in history, which is an increase of 40 percent since President Obama took office.

Unfortunately, the Democrat-controlled Senate has refused to act on the House-passed jobs proposals, and as a result, they continue to place America's economic future in jeopardy.

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