also andrew stern and eric cantor. this event is hosted by the american action network. it is one hour, 20 minutes. >> i am not here to deliver a prepared speech. i am here to talk to you about the american jobs act and to give you a sense of the rationale for why we put forward the american jobs act and why we chose the component that together make up what we feel is an strong and powerful an initiative to jump-start growth and job creation in our country. we face today a serious economic challenge, a difficult economic moments that deserves a serious economic response as parts of an economic growth strategy. we already knew we were digging out of the worst economic hold our country has been in since the great depression. we now know more about how deep that hole was. if you were to look at the blue chip in november of 2008, the projections or the economy in the fourth quarter of 2008 and be forced -- first quarter of 2009 was that it would average a loss of 1.65%. that is what the obama transition team was looking at. we now know that over those two quarters, growth av

. >> andrew stern. >> and my son. i represent all our family. we love you. >> and my son. the sunshine of my life. he gave his life so that others could live. i love you, i miss you, and we will meet again soon. >> martha stevens. >> michael james stewart. >> richard h. stewart, jr. >> sanford m. stoller. >> lonny jay stone. >> jimmy nevill storey. >> timothy stout. >> thomas strada. >> james j. straine, jr. >> edward w. straub. >> george j. strauch, jr. >> edward t. strauss. >> steven r. strauss. >> steven f. strobert. >> walwyn w. stuart, jr. >> benjamin suarez. >> and my brother-in-law. our entire family love and miss you very much. we know you are with us. we see the butterflies. kiss your mom and hug my dad for us. >> into my father-in-law. we love you and miss you very much. >> david scott suarez. >> ramon suarez. >> yoichi sugiyama. >> william christopher sugra. >> daniel suhr. >> david marc sullins. >> christopher p. sullivan. >> patrick sullivan. >> thomas sullivan. >> hilario soriano sumaya, jr. >> james joseph suozzo. >> colleen supinski. >> robert sutcliffe. >>

. -- andrew stern. at the end of the 1990's, i ran for governor.-- how big are you? i said -- big enough to run for governor in california. the question is, how big is congress and the president's, in terms of this issue of going big? i would like to point out that congress and the president were big enough to do these things in the 1990's. i was there. i do not know how dave for john voted, but i voted for the clinton budget in 1993. a career threatening move. i came back by a not reach a margin of 800 votes. most of the women elected me in 1992 to end -- to open seats that were lost. i also was one of a hardy band of 40. we propose to cut from the budget, it would be substantially larger in today's terms, but then it was $400 billion. we hit the wall of most of the moving parts of the clinton administration. i was also part of a large bipartisan group to balance the budget in 1997. that was only four years ago. look at what happened. are we big enough, are our elected leaders big enough to do this? they used to be bigger. something happened. at r