Does the House bill help us to reduce volatility in this price, or will it contribute to the volatility of this price?

I thought the Administration was virtually always for comprehensive reform. I guess that breaks down when it comes to Fannie and Freddie in terms of doing it together with these other pieces.

But beyond that, shouldn't there be a strategy for exiting out of that type of liability for the taxpayer in the future?

I hope as the Committee works hopefully in a bipartisan way on this, we sort of use as a starting point what the real problems were that developed over the last several years.

Whatever those numbers are, they clearly are going to be very significant. What is the taxpayer exit strategy from that type of liability?

I would point out -- and maybe somebody does -- I don't know what the recommendation of the Secretary of Defense is; I don't know what the recommendation of the Joint Chiefs are.

But it is not unreasonable to assume in that category at all, that after eight years any country should reassess where it is.

This the an eight-year war. We have been longer there we have been in World War I and World War II. You know what? This might not be the smartest thing that we have ever done.

It's not unreasonable to assume -- and I'm not casual at all -- that after eight years any country should reassess where it is.

This is an eight-year war. We've been there longer than we've been WORLD WAR I and World War II.

Well, I don't know what makes sense. I know what we've been doing for the last eight years is not working very well.

The president owes it to look at every other possible alternative.

We ought to look at trying to fight a smart war.

But it is not unreasonable to assume -- and I'm not casual at all -- that after eight years, any country should reassess the way it is.

Now, part of our issue is, how do we restore in part the distribution of the sediment from the Mississippi River to rebuild our vanishing coastline?

I think that anybody would -- anybody that does math would say that that's pretty good. I think, under the administration of George W. Bush, we lost more jobs than probably any president in modern American history.

Well, you can call it whatever you want. I don't care what they call it, but they're going to have to do something to humanely deal with these people who -- you know, whose jobs have been lost and been lost for a long period of time.

But let me go further. The chief economist of Goldman Sachs said the stimulus is probably worth about 3 percent of GDP.