Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

To what extent should your budget be protected from budget cuts in the year of execution?

If JPAC were resourced and funded to expand the number of detachments it could field, would you still object to deploying JPAC detachments to improve the personnel recovery process of the 80,000 World War II POW/MIAs?

We realized that folks that live in rural areas are just as much taxpaying citizens as people that live in urban and suburban areas.

It is high time that that be done, and I am very thankful that we had rural broadband in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

This report indicates the rural economy and I quote, 'is now losing jobs at a faster rate than the rest of the nation.'

The one lesson we should draw is the United States did indeed recover from the Great Depression, and we will indeed recover from today's recession.

Fiscal monetary stimulus may provide broader support for the economy than monetary policy alone.

only with the New Deal's rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression.

What lessons can Congress learn from the New Deal that can help drive our economy today?

We cannot draw lessons from every aspect of the Great Depression or from FDR's response.

Until recently, there was not much debate on whether the New Deal helped or hurt efforts to recover.

We spent $173 billion in Afghanistan since 2001.

I voted against the war in Iraq from the very beginning, because I thought it was a terrible mistake and I still think it is a terrible mistake.

What we need in this whole situation is a little balance and common sense and fairness.

We just can't go along with the kooks and the extremists in these situations.

I want to make sure that everybody who is directly affected is treated fairly, compensated, and made whole as much as possible.

My constituents and the land they live on must be made whole again.