Mr. Speaker, we are disappointed that employment fell slightly in October but it followed seven consecutive months of solid job growth. Since the beginning of the year 268,000 new jobs have been created, which is nearly double the number of jobs created over the same period in 1996.
Unemployment is down nearly a full point from where it was a year ago. Therefore I am confident in saying that if we continue to work to create more jobs we will be accomplishing this with the policies that have worked well so far.