Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after the Department of Labor announced 162,000 jobs were created in the month of March and the national unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent:
“Today’s report offers some welcome news for our economy, but the numbers remain far short of what American workers and job creators need and deserve. More than a year after Democrats enacted their budget-busting government stimulus plan, the national unemployment rate remains nearly two percentage points higher than Democrats predicted, and 15 million Americans are still looking for work.
“For more than a year Democrats in Washington have either ignored or punished the job creating sector of our economy, and families around the country are paying the price. Entrepreneurial job creation comes in spite of government expansion – not because of it. Just imagine how many more Americans could be back to work today if not for the economic uncertainty sowed by the Democrats’ big government agenda.
“Speaker Pelosi and President Obama need to shelve their job-killing agenda, including plans to impose a national energy tax and strip American workers of their right to a secret ballot. Republicans have a fiscally responsible plan for economic recovery built on tax incentives for small businesses and tax relief for working families. Let’s begin to do the work we were sent here by the American people to do.”
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