be some tax incentives to some companies to make do more research and development, so there are different pieces in that bill that we might be able to find votes for. let s talk about another one. last night the president was in orlando and between fund-raisers you might have seen this, he toasted to jobs with a group of unemployed workers. and he talked about republican presidents, lincoln and eisenhower, who invested in infrastructure which is a centerpiece of the president s plan. you re a blue dog, known as a more conservative brand of democrat, if the infrastructure part of the bill comes to you, would you support it? absolutely. in fact, when the original $800 billion package to boost the economy was done two years ago, my biggest concern with it, and i told the president and i told my own party, was that we needed to do infrastructure but real infrastructure. we needed to do the majority because this really puts people
have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we don t act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an urgent time for our families and for our businesses. now, congressional republicans say one of the most important things we can do is cut taxes. then they should love this plan. this jobs bill would cut taxes for virtually every worker and small business in america. if you re a small business owner that hires someone or raises wages, you would get another tax cut. if you hire a veteran, you get a tax cut. right now, there s a small business in ohio that does high tech manufacturing and they ve be
lost the ability to inspire confidence in the american people here? the entire country is show-me state. they have heard for some time from the very beginning before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they ve heard a lot of things that didn t happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than anyone thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that s what s reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. in those same polls from cnn/orc say three in ten people feel they are better off today than they were ten years ago. we know congress has a lower approval rating than the president. these are one national polls. there s just one national election. if the economy doesn t impro
time, since before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they have heard a lot of things that didn t happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than what they thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that s what s reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. those same polls show just three out of ten people feel they are better off today than they were ten years ago. we know congress has a lower approval rating than the president. these are one national polls. there s just one national election. if the economy doesn t improve, can the president win? yes, of course, anything can happen. that question, are you better off today than you were four years ago, i bet you hear
stimulus. james inoff one of the most conservative members of the congress, he teamed up with barbara boxer, they tried to triple the infrastructure money in the initial stimulus. megyn: the president said if we pass that stimulus project, the money that we d keep employment to less than 8%. here we are at 9.6%. that was a mistake. of course the cbo which republicans think is great when it supports them. the cb orbg has said that the stimulus may have kept unemployment from rising by over a point and a half and that s the cbo, the nonpartisan cbo. i think the infrastructure part of the stimulus has been the most successful part and we have republicans who said we should have spent more money on infrastructure and i agree with them. it s the one that works. people can see the bridges being repaired, the roads being repaved, new projects going, water systems being street stphepbd. megyn: can they really? or do they just see a lot of their neighbors unemploy