Bipartisan Effort For Job Creation

Floor Speech

Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, we all know that most of the political eyes and other eyes are focused down at the Blair House right now as the health care summit has just gotten underway, and my friend from Fort Lauderdale and I are going to begin the floor management of the very, very important intelligence authorization bill focused on our Nation's security.

But we can't forget what issue is in the forefront of the minds of most Americans, and that is getting our economy back on track, focusing on job creation and economic growth. And we've just gotten the news this morning that there has been an unfortunate 12 percent increase in the jobless claims, and we continue to have mixed reports on where we are with the economy.

It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that it's absolutely imperative for us to work in a bipartisan way to put into place true private sector job creation incentives, and by that I mean utilizing the bipartisan effort that was, in the last half century, utilized by John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. And I believe that if we were to implement those kind of policies, Mr. Speaker, we would see the kind of job creation that the American people are seeking.

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