"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when…
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep "an extreme, job-killing Internal Revenue Service paperwork mandate."
More than 10 years of free trade "has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit."
Says that the federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993.
"Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government."
Since Rep. John Boccieri’s election, "Ohio has lost 600,000 jobs" and his district’s "unemployment has doubled."
"Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining."
Says he's so bipartisan that "12 of my bills were signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton."
Since the stimulus package was passed, "Ohio’s lost over 100,000 more jobs."
A bill to save teacher jobs is completely paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
On Lee Fisher’s watch, "almost nine out of 10" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, "not to other countries."
"More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more."