Well, look it, if unemployment stay this high, they're going to have to do something. They are going to have to extend unemployment compensation benefits.

I'm sure there is nothing that would stimulate the Republican base like seeing people who are out of work as for no fault of their own not have this.

Why don't you finish the discussion? Then I will jump in.

Just in your business, what percentage of the 504 activity do you think is 'rural'?

Thanks very much, Ed. Thanks to all of you for being part of this roundtable.

Does anyone else have any comments to those same topics or questions?

This is really important for us, and I think it is a lot more relaxed and flexible mechanism to get a lot of good input and ideas from the real world versus a formal hearing.

I would love to talk with Senator Snowe about it--and also the particular business of daycare--because it supports and undergirds small business everywhere.

I want to say I think it is a very smart idea, and I would argue to my colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans, that using the entrepreneurialship model more for trying to have Government programs be successful is something that I think…

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The President is very focused--and it is really very bipartisan as well--on this whole new concept of social entrepreneurship.

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Well, the difference is that of course, as we now know there was a vast right wing conspiracy. You had tobacco company is paying people to publish stuff in 'The New Republic.' I mean, we've documented that. The difference now is it's not a…

There are a lot of people on -- on -- on that can't control their emotions. And for -- if it does -- if something does happen, it's -- it's going to be -- the consequences of this would be pretty dramatic.

Well, the difference is, is that, of course, we now know there was a vast right-wing conspiracy.

I am a little bit concerned, be it President Obama or -- or -- or sort of political figures in general.

A lot of people on -- that can't control their emotions and if something does happen, it's going to -- the consequences of this would be pretty dramatic.

I think he will be an incredible asset to the work of this Contracting Oversight Subcommittee.