The whole reason for the Recovery Act was to create or save jobs.
You are going to be able to do a lot of things and slice and dice the data any number of ways you want.
Any significant fraud or waste in this program is going to have a devastating blow on public opinion and trust in government.
I appreciate what you are both doing, first to spend the money that we have appropriated.
I always feel the best thing government can do is to try to help people get and hold good jobs to provide for themselves.
So you would say your minimal goal for the use of the Medicaid reimbursement or support that is part of this bill, is that there be no cutba...
I presume, if I can draw you out on that, that would have meant significant layoffs of teachers and other school personnel.
The idea that there is this level playing field between the borrower and the lender... is questionable.
Thank you, Senator. Those are good questions and ones we have spent a lot of time on over the last 2 years.
There has been an assumption that the Community Reinvestment Act gave mortgages to a lot of poor people who couldn't afford them.
the purpose of CRA has worked quite well.
I just worry about this idea that we are going to exclude the possibility of poorer people becoming home owners.
lending decisions should not be made by political correctness or by government fiat or by a law or by regulation.
I thank Senator Levin and Senator McCain for their legislation, S. 454, which certainly would take us forward in significant ways.
It's probably not been an exciting hearing in content, but it's actually very important, an educational hearing.
I think, clearly, for research-and-development-type activities, cost-plus is an appropriate way to do it.
Good. Get it for the record, please.
Is there any way, now or maybe afterward, to submit for the record, you could give us a sense of what we would normally, in conversation, co...
