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If you can bail out Wall Street, why can't you help out on Main Street?

My home State has 12.7 percent unemployment. Michigan is above us, Tennessee. It is not localized.

The employers really like this program, and I think for the reason you point out.

I think it is really important to do things because some of the things we are going to do will need to be extended for years.

We are going to see a huge increase in children in poverty.

I think that is what the American people expect you to do, to take decisive action to generate jobs.

Most economists...give the Recovery Act a major share of credit for jump-starting the moribund economy.

I think I agree with you. That was the prelude to this problem, I mean one of them.

If nothing is done, you can expect to see 1 million jobs lost this summer and fall as States and local governments pare back on the services they provide.

We think 1 million jobs can be created directly through public service jobs.

We think there are about 250,000 jobs can be created through infrastructure and through school renovation and rehab.

He was trying to get the health care debate over with, because it's unpopular back home.

Is there a way that Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, can get himself re-elected in Nevada in the upcoming election?

At the top of the hour, Senator Harry Reid's racially-charged comments and the firestorm that they've set off.

You need to run, but we can't come out for you.

I have apologized to the president. I have apologized to everyone that within the sound of my voice that I could have used a better choice of words.