There are too many people sitting at home, six or even twelve months unemployed, with a house worth 20 percent less than the note on it, and they need more than a watered down Jobs bill.

I think the record is clear not only from your testimony but from other data we have been seeing more recently.

I would call that good news.

We went from a negative GDP to a positive Gross Domestic Product of 5.9 in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Thus, I have made foreclosure prevention my highest priority and will continue to do so.

Veterans from the post-2001 period Gulf War, I am told that that rate is higher than the national Veterans rate?

So as long as the perfect storm created by unemployment and foreclosures remains over us, it is incumbent on us to do more and do more soon.

According to the numbers you gave us for January and February of 2009, it is about 1.5 million jobs lost.

the phrase used earlier, 'little changed,' is encouraging.

726,000 in February of 2009.

Thank you for accepting the position in the administration to provide a breath of bipartisanship.

I wrote you, back on December 23, asking you not to reprogram the money.

I think that Pennsylvania ought to be getting more on the next round of disbursements.

I'd like to get that worked out, at the staff level, so we can figure out to----

Thank you for liberating it.

I think it is a technology which is expensive, but I think it would be worth it.

We're talking about a figure of $600 billion. Is that realistic, from the point of view of the administration? I hope so.

It's the kind of legislation that I would favor and would be inclined to introduce.