DSCC Ad: "GOP Says No To Jobs"
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a new "No New Jobs" ad highlighting GOP Senate candidates' opposition to the recently-passed jobs bill.
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, yet Congressman Roy Blunt opposed this effort....
Despite the benefits of the bill, and despite Missouri having a 9.5% unemployment rate and 283,000 unemployed residents, Congressman Roy Blunt opposed the HIRE Act.
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 Congressman Roy Blunt also 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.
