Last month I authored a letter, signed by 59 of my colleagues, urging the Supercommittee to protect job-creating investments in education and research.

So the margin requirements would require us to take $2 trillion away from job-creating investments.

In January 2009, Deeds proposed up to a $10,000 tax credit for businesses that made "job-creating investments."

A simpler, fairer tax code will create certainty for businesses and families and help them make wise, job-creating investments.

Because of this lack of preparation, money that should be going into long-term, job-creating investments is being eaten up by daily salaries.

In fact, the public sector was soaking up 90 percent of the country's savings and leaving next to nothing for job-creating private investment.

The objectives of the European Central Bank must be redrafted to include job-creating investments and industrial projects.

We must improve them in a way that enables measures to improve education and qualifications to be more effectively coordinated with job-creating investment.

We are calling for the regulation of the financial markets and for job-creating investment not to be taken into account within the context of the stability pact.

Really, though, it should be more concerned with its own weak job-creating green investments.