Is anybody looking at that? One, do you agree with that number, or you just do not know if that number is accurate?

I am very disturbed to see the number of communities and states that are expanding gambling, that are seeking gambling, which brings crime, corruption, break down of the family, etcetera.

I do not think we should do it. That does not create a job. That, I mean, the break down of the American values.

I just want to create jobs.

I would like to ask you, John R. Fernandez, on behalf of this administration, to work with this Committee...

the country needs to create jobs. We need to create real jobs, where people get up in the morning, and go to work, and do things that make a difference for the country.

You're leading the Patent Trademark Office in a very troubling and difficult and challenging time.

I would like to see if we could get the administration to put together a team and contact and look at the top twenty-five companies, U.S.

the administration is not doing anything in this area. And the previous administration did not do anything in this area.

We are in record debt. Anne Applebaum did a piece the other day for the Washington Post saying we are going to be Greece.

I am tired of just seeing us lose all these jobs, and where Americans could do the jobs.

We are anxious to hear how you plan on dealing with that.

Yeah, I mean there is nothing, Mr. Chairman, to locking yourself into a metal box and driving from beautiful West Virginia driving downtown when you could just stay in West Virginia, and I think it has been one of the most successful.

But China is stealing us blind.

Your revenues are down, your patent backlog is over 700,000, unemployment reaching ten percent in the country.

A great nation needs a strong economic base to support its national security.

I contacted the White House when I was on Guam, trying to make the point that this isn't simply a transportation issue; it's a national security issue.

We cannot remain as a viable balancing force in the Pacific without these bases.