AS PRESIDENT SIGNS JOBS BILL TODAY, DEMOCRATS RELEASE NEW WEB AD SPOTLIGHTING REPUBLICANS OPPOSING JOB CREATION
Pat Toomey, Rob Portman, Mark Kirk, Roy Blunt, Kelly Ayotte, Jane Norton ALL Opposed The Bipartisan HIRE Act
“No New Jobs” Found HERE
As President Obama signs into law a new bipartisan bill to create jobs today, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released “No New Jobs" a new ad slamming Republican Senate candidates for turning their backs on job creation at every turn. Yesterday, on a bipartisan basis, the Senate passed the HIRE Act, a commonsense bill that provides hiring incentives and tax relief to small businesses in order to jumpstart job creation and get Americans back to work. The HIRE Act will create over one million jobs this year alone.
“It is Spring time, and Republicans seem allergic to job creation," said DSCC Communications Director Eric Schultz. "As the President signs into law a bipartisan bill that will create over one million jobs, Republican Senate candidates across the country opposed this commonsense, job-creation package. The choice for voters this fall is becoming clearer: a choice between Democrats who are working hard to get Americans back to work and revive the economy, and Republicans who are dead-set on obstructing economic recovery at every turn."
Despite the benefits of the bill, the vast majority of Republican Senate candidates opposed this bill, including Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania (8.8% unemployment rate, 564,000 unemployed), Rob Portman in Ohio (10.8% unemployment rate, 640,000 unemployed), Mark Kirk in Illinois (11.3% unemployment rate, 744,000 unemployed), Roy Blunt in Missouri (9.5% unemployment rate, 283,000 unemployed), Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire (7.0% unemployment rate, 52,000 unemployed), and Jane Norton in Colorado (7.4 unemployment rate, 195,000 unemployed).
The HIRE Act, a bipartisan job creation package, will create more than a million jobs across the nation by the end of this year alone. The bipartisan bill has four key provisions including a payroll tax holiday for businesses to encourage hiring, additional funds to help small businesses expand, an extension of the Highway Trust Fund to allow more infrastructure investments, and an expansion of the Build America Bonds program to help states finance job-creating infrastructure projects.
According to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which Republican Senate candidates also overwhelmingly opposed, created over 2 million last year, has boosted the US economy by 3.5%, and has lowered the unemployment rate by up to 2.1%. The CBO projects that the stimulus will have an even greater impact in 2010.
· ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL: Toomey would not have voted for jobs bill LINK
· COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Portman would have voted "no" on jobs bill LINK
· GLENVIEW-ANNOUNCEMENTS: Kirk votes against jobs bill LINK
· ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: Roy Blunt said he disagrees with Sen. Kit Bond on jobs bill LINK
· ABC NEWS: Kelly Ayotte: I Would Have Voted Against Senate Jobs Bill LINK · FOX NEWS: Jane Norton Against Senate Jobs Bill LINK
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