Late last night, we took the first big step toward helping our automotive industry with a bipartisan compromise to provide critical bridge-loan funding to keep our automakers going and preserve jobs here at home. This compromise includes House and Senate leaders, as well as the White House.

This legislation is the result of around-the-clock negotiations which recognize that the health of our manufacturing sector is critical to the health of our economy as a whole.

We cannot sit idly by and allow our manufacturing base to be decimated by the credit crisis. In order to stay competitive in a global economy and preserve our middle-class, we must make things in this country. This bipartisan legislation is a commitment to saving that manufacturing base and investing in good-paying, middle-class jobs.

Now that there is agreement with the White House and Congressional leaders, the next step is to schedule a vote and garner the necessary bipartisan votes to pass it. This effort is far from over, but I will continue to fight every day to protect our jobs and our American manufacturing industry.

current mood: pleased

1. utter and complete panic about how the new job is going to affect my new bills. i have a mortgage and accompanying payments planned around my old job, which included my car payments and insurance being paid with my mileage check. since i'll no longer be an outside rep, that check is gone. however, it sounds as if i'll be making more in bonus as the new job, so things should be fine. should be. i'll stop worrying once i know it to be true.
2. i hate learning new things.
3. i love my boss and don't want to leave.
4. i'll no longer be working in the same city where my family lives, which means no more lunch dates. i'll see them even less. and i'm lonely now, sometimes.
5. i finally just started to feel like i was accomplishing good if not great things at my current job, and now i have to leave and let someone else take care of them. control issue, that.

current mood: sad