Hey, Mitch McConnell went on the Senate floor and lied to the world that he and the Republicans are responsible for the economic growth. Yes, he was lying, but he is a Republican so lying is expected.
But if Mitch can lie about something he did not do, why can’t one of the people responsible for the economic recovery speak up and acknowledged that positive growth?
President Obama has been doing just that and now Nancy Pelosi is doing the same.
After the report today that the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, Pelosi issues this statement.
“Last month, our economy added another exclamation point to the longest uninterrupted period of private sector job creation in our history: 58 months, 11.2 million jobs. In 2014, we created nearly 3 million new jobs, more than in any year since 1999. For all our progress, however, too many Americans are still out of work and too many middle class families still feel squeezed. It is clear the 114th Congress must act to create jobs and expand the opportunities of working people and middle class families.
“On the first day of this Congress, Democrats put forward a legislative package to increase paychecks for working families and put Americans back to workbuilding the roads and bridges our country needs – paid for by keeping our tax dollars here at home. The CEO/Employee Pay Fairness Act will ensure that workers share in the fruit of their productivity, by denying CEOs the ability to claim tax deductions on income over $1 million unless they give their employees a well-deserved raise. With the Stop Corporate Expatriation and Invest in America’s Infrastructure Act, we will prevent U.S. corporations from renouncing their citizenship to dodge paying their fair share of taxes and use those dollars to create good-paying jobs here at home.
“Republicans, however, blocked the House from considering both bills – choosing instead to spend the opening days of the new Congress advancing more special interest priorities. The American people expect Congress to champion the paychecks of middle class families, not the profits of big banks and corporations shipping jobs overseas. Republicans should stop undermining the middle class, and come together with Democrats to create jobs, bigger paychecks and better infrastructure for every American family.”
