I have always believed that we need to restore stability in our financial markets, and you have been a leader with that.
American households now stand at owing 130 percent of their annual income in total debt.
We will have them in a week or so. We have nine states now in double digits.
That is quite a difference.
Our state now went, we lag about a month, but from the 8.2 percent down to 8.1 percent unemployment.
the unemployment rate of Veterans since the Gulf War is higher than the unemployment rate for people who have not served...
the companies seem to be--not in every sector, but some of these companies seem to be evening out, or actually seeing so...
When you include the discouraged workers, what is the unemployment rate then?
So we are at a 9.4 percent unemployment rate.
We do know that profitable companies are more likely to hire than those that are faltering.
I think it is a big concern that we keep having that happen.
the tax credit was incredibly helpful, the $8000 tax credit; that is, as we reach the end of the year, that a lot of you...
I heard just this week from a woman in Rice, Minnesota, who works to provide residential services for the disabled.
It should not be our goal to treat every commodity the same when it comes to regulation.
Did the Seventh Circuit rule wrong on Zelener, can I ask each of you in your opinion?
I believe I can speak to the perspective of many of them. They do not fear government regulation, they welcome it.
What is so puzzling for so many of our dealers in Minnesota, is that some of these dealers were actually doing pretty we...
I just wanted to say to the Chairman that I don't think it's uncomfortable to be talking about this.