“We can’t keep debating excuses instead of delivering solutions.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) released the following statement regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that the unemployment number climbed to 9.1 percent in May: 

“Today’s jobs report is another sobering sign that the President’s economic policy is failing this generation and the next.  College graduates continue to enter an economy that is losing its global competitiveness.  Millions of skilled Americans remain unemployed and help is nowhere on the horizon.

“Instead the Obama Administration continues to push policies that make it harder for job creators to hire new workers.  Just this week, the President nominated someone to run his Commerce Department who has actively undermined the creation of ‘all of the above’ American energy jobs.

“As Americans struggle to find work and pay rising gas prices, they need better leadership from Washington.   We can’t keep debating excuses instead of delivering solutions.  We need to make it easier and cheaper for the private sector to create jobs.  The President’s policies made it harder and more expensive for the private sector to create jobs.”

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