I hope I am here next year to continue this discussion.
Your predecessor, Mr. John Hamre, assured me that he would fix that problem after he was confirmed as Deputy Secretary, ...
I think my judgment is you have a ways to go.
I want to go to interest rates and the publicly held debt.
Obviously, a lot of us agree with the goals that the President articulated.
I got $16 billion in the recovery bill for school construction, $16 billion.
I think it means we have to put having people earn a good living at the center of economic policy.
ARRA has had a positive impact in Iowa even during this economic downturn.
we are using a total of $591.6 million of ARRA funds.
I think it is something you should only do for a year or two.
That is massive redistribution of wealth.
I think we have to do whatever we can to really get things going.
I thank all of you for being here and for just excellent testimony from all of you.
They need to have that door opened for them.
You get jobs.
If we don't get the votes to pass the debt limit, we are in danger of defaulting, and I don't know what that means.
We need to do something on a permanent basis that we can scale up at these moments.
Sixteen billion dollars would have done a heck of a lot for schools in this country.
