Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – Citing the creation of 268,000 private sector jobs in April and more than three quarters of a million jobs over the past three months, U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today said he is increasingly optimistic that our economy is showing signs of significant growth.

"For the third consecutive month, our economy has added more than 200,000 private sector jobs.  Businesses have added more than 2 million jobs since March of last year.  This is clearly welcome news," Bingaman said.  "But even though our economy continues to gain strength, we should not be satisfied until millions more Americans are back to work.  Too many in Washington are focused entirely on the cutting the deficit.  I believe Congress must continue to focus on growing the economy."