Posted on 09/13/2010 2:05:59 PM PDT by mdittmar
Washington, DC –Nevada Senator Harry Reid made the following remarks on the Senate floor this afternoon to begin the fall Senate work period. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
“I welcome back all of my colleagues from all corners of the country. I’m sure every Senator enjoyed spending time with constituents as much as I did. And I’m sure we’re all eager to get back to the business of legislating.
“The work period we begin today is an important one. Like every work period, it represents a new opportunity to move past the partisan stalemates of recent months and find common ground on our most pressing priority: putting people back to work.
“I hope the weeks between now and Columbus Day will be productive ones. There really is no reason they shouldn’t be. The issues we’ll be dealing with aren’t partisan or ideological ones. They have the support of Democratic, Republican and Independent Senators. They have the support of Democratic, Republican and Independent constituents. And all of us have a common obligation and a shared interest in doing all we can to get our economy running again.
“If we were to adopt a slogan to guide us in the coming weeks, I would nominate something a colleague of ours said just a few days ago. The senior Senator from Ohio, a Republican, was talking last week about the standoffs that have stalled the Senate – gridlock that has kept us in recent months from realizing our ability and fulfilling our responsibility to help small businesses. He said: ‘We don't have time for messaging. We don't have time anymore. This country is really hurting.’
“He’s right. Small businesses across Nevada are hurting. Small businesses across my friend’s state of Ohio are hurting. Small businesses in the presiding officer’s state are hurting. They’re hurting from coast to coast because credit and capital are too hard to come by.
“The owners of these businesses aren’t interested in our partisan rhetoric – and neither are the people they’ve had to lay off, or the unemployed they’ve had to turn away. People in Nevada and throughout the nation are too busy keeping track of their business’s books or their family’s budget to keep track of who’s scoring cheap political points. They’re not interested in any of that. They’re simply desperate for us to do our jobs, and that is to help create jobs.
“That’s what the first vote Senators will cast tomorrow is all about. Tomorrow we’ll decide whether to move ahead with a bill that helps more small businesses be the engine that runs our economy.
“When most Americans go to work in the morning, they don’t go to the big corporations with the famous names. They go to work at small businesses.
“But those businesses are also the ones that have paid the highest price in Wall Street’s recession. Two out of every three jobs we’ve lost came from a small business.
“Our bill is not a new one, and tomorrow won’t be the first time we’ve voted on it. But to refresh my colleagues’ memories, let me briefly remind everyone what’s in it:
• One, it cuts small businesses’ taxes so they can hire and grow.
• Two, it increases Small Business Administration loan limits, which gets money flowing to the entrepreneurs who create jobs.
• Three, it makes it easier for small businesses to export what they make.
• And four, it creates a new lending fund to that will give small banks – and by extension small businesses – more capital to invest.
“Most importantly, this bill will create jobs – up to 500,000 of them. But every day we delay, the opposite happens. Small businesses are holding off on hiring while they wait for us to act. Banks large and small are holding onto their capital while they wait for us to act. And half a million Americans who want to work – people who are ready to get off unemployment and get back on the job – are desperate for us to get our act together.
“So let’s get to work. As the Republican Senator from Florida said when we last debated this bill, it should get the support of more than 80 Senators. And as my friend the Republican Senator from Ohio said, we don’t have time anymore for political games. Our citizens are hurting too much.”
Dingy Reid is a reprehensible, pathetic joke that the people of Nevada must send packing. He has participated in destroying Nevada; case closed.
You’re not kidding people any more, Harry.
Way too little, too late, numbn#|$.
harry has tried to do more than that;)
Reid:
Senate Must Keep Focus On Putting Nevadans Back To Work This Work Period
Conservatives:
Nevadans must Focus on putting Reid out of Work This Work Period.
I’m guessing Reid did not really enjoy spending time with his constituency.
Screw you Reid, you are only 2 years late, you lying bastard.
How about the rest of the country, Harry?
Bu-Bye Reid and hopefully bu-bye Pelosi and Boxer and all of 'em.
Bu-Bye Reid and hopefully bu-bye Pelosi and Boxer and all of 'em.
Senator Reed, you are about to get Daschled.
The cost per job on these “stimulus” bills is so high, they’d have been better off giving the away in a massive lottery in the hope that the money would all be spent by consumers. As stupid as the idea is, it’s not as bad as what has actually happened to the stimulus money. In some cases it’s costing millions of dollars per job with no guarantee the jobs will be long term. Insanity!
What an ass! All of a sudden he cares!
Is a work period the period right before an election?
What happens after? Back to NO work?
So long idiot.
He’s obama’s hand maiden.
If we have to write ads for Sharron’s campaign ourselves, that’s what we’ll do!
It’s going to be a good November when I see Dirty Harry sent to the unemployment line.
....grasping.....at......straws........
Reid is a marxist thug. The small business ‘jobs’ bill is at best a ‘wash’ to small businesses.
It raises their taxes overall, THEN puts the federal government in charge of ‘spreading that wealth around’ back to those favored small businesses that it prefers to succeed (or those who are otherwise politically connected)
It also makes the government the default ‘banker’ for small businesses, so they will have to kiss all the proper A**es in Washington to get a loan. (Chicago-style practice at it’s best)
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