February 05, 2010, 02:02 PM

A letter to the editor in the February 2 Intelligencer-Journal/Lancaster New Era falsely claimed that Congressman Pitts voted against an emergency extension of unemployment compensation insurance. The newspaper ran a correction on February 4.

January 30, 2010, 06:09 PM

A year ago, on January 28, 2009, I voted against the Democrats’ “stimulus bill.” I predicted, correctly, that it would be too ineffective to justify the massive price tag. It was supposed to cost $787 billion and keep unemployment from exceeding eight percent. Well, today unemployment is at ten percent and the CBO just announced the stimulus will cost another $75 billion more than advertised.

December 03, 2009, 10:23 PM

The number-one issue in American right now is unemployment.  In Chester County, the unemployment rate is 6.5 percent.  In Lancaster County, it’s 8 percent.  In Berks County, it’s 9.1 percent.  Those are serious numbers.  But unemployment isn’t about numbers.  It’s about people, and we have to remember that we’re not talking about statistics.  We’re talking about real people who are struggling to put food on the table.