mr. cummings, that job plan cost $200,000 per job. my wife, who is not an economist, said give the same people $150,000 and we'll be ahead of the gai. we're not going to get out of this problem by spending $200,000 per job. >> you're saying that you can't -- one of the things that's always bothered me about all of this is you look at the -- something like infrastructure, and in they say there's a sink hole developing every eight minutes. >> i agree with that. >> every eight minutes. we got bridges falling apart. . you know, i told some people the other day, you can erode from the inside. you can die from the inside. if you're educating your people, not innovating, you can't be competitive, so at whatpoint -- i mean, you got to spend. you got to spend carefully to get the economy going and get people moving carefully, but at the same time, you can't die in the process because by the time you get out of the mess, you don't have a country. >> i agree. >> you agree with me? >> i agree that the infrastructure in the united states is bad. i

mr. cummings, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. cummings: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i stand in strong opposition, mr. speaker, to this bill. the national labor relations board exists to ensure if companies do not discriminate against workers who exercises their rights under federal law. to -- the protection prevents the illegal offshoring of american jobs. in 2000, for example, a california jewelry manufacturing company took aggressive action to discourage its employees from organizing a right that is protected under federal law. when the company failed it announced plans to relocate its operations to mexico. the board was able to prevent this from happening using the authority this bill would eliminate -- the board prevented the company from moving american jobs to mexico. h.r. 2587, if inen acted, companies will be able to ship jobs overseas in retaliation against american workers exercising their rights. unfortunately h.r. 2587 is p

mr. cummings and senator demint. mr. cummings is recognized. >> to what extent are dead as is being driven by slow economic growth? -- our deficits being driven by slow economic growth? and the proposal, the most recent job proposal presented by the president, i wanted to know your opinion of those might be? and did you feel that they would be helpful as many economists have projected? >> no question that the main driving force behind the big run-up in the budget deficit is the economic slump. someone else referred to lower tax revenues, high and high unemployment insurance, it is as strong regularity that deficits go up in recessions and we have had a main recession. the stimulus program added to the debt. but it was a secondary thing compared to the recession. restoring growth is the best protect the grid -- deficit reduction plan. as far as the president's jobs plan, i have not studied it in detail. it seems like a step in the right direction. we face a huge problem and whether it is that jobs plan for paris deregulati

mr. cummings, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. cummings: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i stand in strong opposition, mr. speaker, to this bill. the national labor relations board exists to ensure if companies do not discriminate against workers who exercises their rights under federal law. to -- the protection prevents the illegal offshong of american jobs. in 2000, for example, a california jewelry manufacturing company took aggressive action to discourage its employees from organizing a right that iprotected under federal law. when the company faileit announced plans to relocate its operations to mexico. the board was able to prevent this from happening using the authority this bill would eliminate -- the board prevented the company from moving american jobs to mexico. h.r. 2587, if inen acted, companies will be able to ship jobs overseas in retaliation against american workers exercising their rights. unfortunately h.r. 2587 is part of

mr. cummings. to go to what extent are deficits be driven by slow economic growth and what impact will this have on the ability to reduce the debt? and the proposals, the most recent job proposals presented by the president, i wanted to know what your opinion of those might be, and do you feel they would be helpful? >> i think there is no question the main driving force behind the big run-up in the budget deficit is the economic slump. someone else referred to the were tax revenues, higher unemployment insurance. it is a very strong economic regularity that deficits go up in recession. the stimulus program added to the debt, but it was secondary compared to the recession. if we can find a way to restore growth, that is the best possible deficit reduction plan. anything which retards growth will be somewhat self-defeating as far as the fiscal situation because of the effects of growth of the deficit. as far as the president's jobs plan, it seems like a step in the right direction. it still seems we

mr. cummings to join us. if you please come up now. as they are joining us, i would like to ask bruce fried if he would like to comment for about two minutes. and then mr. brandenburg from at stake, if you would share your thoughts and your activities. you want to come up here? >> thank you. charlie, thanks very much. and thanks to mike. i have been working with both of them and with the money and politics subcommittee. it's been a pleasure to work with them on the issue of corporate political exposure, how to deal with the issue of money and politics. i want to thank charlie and ced for incorporating the center for political upheaval accountability as part of the reform agenda. i think it's extremely important, because the approach they are taking of using the corporate governance group and risk to address this real problem of hidden money hand to bring transparency and accountability to political spending is extremely important. with the gridlock we have seen today, with the problems you have had with the regulatory agencies, the enfo

mr. cummings and senator dement. >> to what extend are deficits, -- are deficits being driven by slow economic growth and what imkt -- impact of more robust economic growth on our ability to reign in the debt and the proposals, the most recent jobs proposals presented by the president, i wanted to know what your opinion of those might be and do you feel that they would be helpful? >> i think there's no question that the main driving force behind the big run-up in the budget deficit is -- we had a big recession. the stimulus program added to the debt but it was secondary to the recession. ablute shoo -- absolutely if we find a way to restore robust growth that's the best possible deficit reduction plan. and anything which retards growth will be self-defeating as far as the fiscal situation because of the effects of growth on the deficit. as far as the president's jobs plan, i haven't studied it in detail but it seems like a step in the right direction. we face a huge problem, whether the president's jobs plan or regulation or things the fed can do, it's not due to any of the pressures -- measur

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mrs. christensen: thank you, danny. this morning, i was with the postmasters at their convention. they're facing some difficulties and having to downsize. those are some jobs that we know that you and elijah cummingses norton, ed towns and lacy clay have been working to protect. at this time, i yield such time as she might consume to the gentlelady from california, congresswoman maxine waters. ms. waters: thank you very much. i'd like to thank you for taking this time out this evening to focus on this issue of jobs. it's extremely important. i'd like to thank steny hoyer for coming to the floor to recognize the work that we are doing, to increase job opportunities for people in this country. the congressional black caucus is to be commended, commended because they heard the cry. they felt the pain of so many people out there who have lost their jobs, who do not know how they're going to pay their mortgages, who do not know how they're going to provide for their families, so despite the fact that the congressional black caucus organizeds and introduced over 40 bills dealing with this issue, the congressional black caucus decided to do something more, recognizing, yes, we have a public policy respon