Rep. Cantor Release

Cantor: The Administration And Democrats Need To Be Focused On Job Creation
July 16, 2009
Contact:Brad Dayspring
202-226-5249

“We should be about job creation. We should be about making sure American workers get back to work.”



WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivered the following remarks at a press conference with Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) and RSC members of the freshman class to discuss the economy and the need to focus on job creation:

“Good morning. We’re here today to talk about all the things that are swirling around here and the very aggressive agenda that this administration is trying to push through this Congress and frankly onto the American people. From the very beginning of this Congress, we have been focused on one thing and that is job creation. In fact, people across this country are continuing to wonder ‘where are the jobs?’

“And as we see the ambitious agenda with one program after another coming down the pike, the additional question asked is ‘who is paying for all of what is trying to be pushed?’ I just walked out of the Ways & Means health care mark up which is just beginning, and it is extraordinary the breath of the bill that is being pushed through and the costs associated with it. Ultimately, really, the cost is going to be borne by the people of this country, the middle class, the wealthy and those who can least afford it. All of us are going to be paying an astronomical cost at a time that we just cannot afford this ambitious grab. I want to quote to you a letter that was sent to the Speaker and to the Majority Leader by the Blue Dogs and to sum up their concern, at the bottom it says, ‘we cannot support a bill that further exacerbates the challenges faced by small businesses.’ In fact, the Blue Dogs got it right.

“We should be about job creation. We should be about making sure American workers get back to work. And that’s our concern with what’s going on in the health care bill, that’s our concern with what went on in the cap-and-trade bill, that’s our concern with the lack of success as far as the stimulus is concerned.”