Jobs for America Act

Floor Speech

I thank the chairman for his great work.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 4, and I will tell you why: the world is looking for the next great, emerging economy, and you know where it is? It is right here. It is us. It sits here, in this country.

We talk about the American people. What are they tired of? They are tired of political talk and not policy change that will get them back to work.

This morning, Mr. Speaker, 92 million Americans woke up and decided they weren't even going to go look for a job today because there is no hope in finding a job today. That is 92 million Americans.

Now, I don't know if they vote Republican. I don't know if they vote Democrat. I think they are getting to the point where they don't want to vote for either side because all they are asking is: work together to fix America.

The President of Ukraine came to the United States today to ask for help. He didn't go anywhere else in the world. He came here. Why did he come to the United States? Why did he come to America? Why, for centuries, have people come to America? For opportunity, for jobs, and to make their life better.

We sit and debate a jobs package, and we want to talk about politics. We don't want to talk about the policy of it; we don't want to talk about the opportunity that this country has always presented. Are you kidding me?

If there is dysfunction, it is in the Senate, where 360 pieces of legislation are on a table because one man stands in the way of this legislation, and it is the leader of the Senate.

If the American people--and I am not talking about Republicans or Democrats, I am talking about the American people--are to see what actually takes place in this great House, where so much policy has been driven in the past--please, get away from the politics; we are sick of it as a people.

The opportunity is off the charts. A new day is dawning. The only thing holding it back right now is the cloud cover that comes from Washington, D.C., where we refuse to create opportunity and, instead, create anger and we create dissatisfaction and we create confusion.

The American people sit back and say, ``Why me? Why now? Why here?'' That is the great question, ``Why?'' Does a reelection mean more than the redirection of this country?

After 6 years of waiting to see this great country emerge again with all the assets that we have been given--and they are gifts from God, but we haven't capitalized on them--the American people want something done.

This is a package of jobs bills, my friends. This gets America back to work, my friends. This makes America great again. This makes us who we are. This is the very fabric of who this country has always been, the greatest Nation in the world, always a defender of personal freedoms and liberty, but we can only do it when we have a dynamic and robust company.

It is time to stop talking politics and start talking policy. It is time to get America back to work. A new day is dawning, a new opportunity is waiting for us, and the greatest emerging economy the world has ever seen is sitting right here within our borders, and the only thing it is looking for right now is dynamic leadership and direction.

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