Congressman Canseco's Statement on the October Jobs Report

Statement

Congressman Francisco "Quico" Canseco, a former small businessman and a member of the House Financial Services Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to today's job report released by the Department of Labor for the month of October:

"Today we learned that the economy added 80,000 jobs in October. However, this is far short of the 150,000 jobs we need to be creating every month just to keep up with population growth. To put it simply, unemployment remains too high and this anemic job growth is unacceptable when we have almost 14 million Americans who are willing to work but can't find a job.

"After listening to small business owners from across the nation, here in the House of Representatives, we have passed jobs bill after jobs bill but they are left untouched and rotting at the door of the United States Senate. This type of inaction is irresponsible; the least Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could do is allow for the bills to be voted on. Every one of these bills passed by the House -- most with bipartisan support -- addresses some aspect of how Washington is holding back our economy and preventing it from getting turned around and creating jobs. Instead of trying to jam through the United States Senate President Obama's so-called "jobs bill", which is really just another Washington spend and borrow plan like the failed 2009 stimulus bill and is opposed on a bipartisan basis, why doesn't Senator Reid take up any of the jobs bills passed by the House that enjoy bipartisan support?

The people of the 23rd District of Texas have made it clear to me in the numerous town halls I've held and other forums, that they don't want more Washington spending and higher taxes. What they have told me is they want Washington to get out of the way so that private sector job creators can expand their businesses and put American back to work," concluded Congressman Canseco.

Today, the Department of Labor announced the September unemployment rate was 9.0%. This marks the 33rd straight month that the unemployment rate has been above 8%.

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