It's about jobs, stupid!

4.7 million American workers have been unemployed for at least six months.

Only four...count them 4...congresscritters showed up to talk about long term unemployment.

Of course, all four were Democrats.

with the nation’s unemployment rate at 7.6 percent, members of congress are fond of saying that they are focused on nothing but jobs. and yet, when Minnesota sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) scheduled a joint economic committee hearing on one of the biggest jobs-related crises facing the united states, just four of the committee’s 20 members bothered to show up. - think progress