I hope that would be part of the record as well.

Have--when the rating agencies put you on negative watch, did they consider the potential decrease of what you've estimated of 700,000 decrease in passengers annually at Dulles when they made that estimation?

$4.8 billion, that was build upon assumptions and representations that were made by the Congress about what the role of Dulles would be, correct?

I would like to reiterate my commitment to this important issue, and to commend my Virginia counterpart, Sen. Warner, for his many efforts.

So that would be an added factor on potentially downgrading of investments of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the local communities, and the Federal Government have made in jeopardizing the long-term viability of this bond rating with this…

I think it's timely and appropriate. I also want to echo all the good work you've both done.

Republicans thought they were embracing the Tea Party and at times it turns into the Donner party.

I really think that sector--we may not be able to solve every challenge, but there could be targeted assistance to that group.

If we can't accomplish that, this place is pretty darn broken.

It is America versus the rest of the world, and we have got to have the same kind of tool box that other countries offer.

I hope if we are not able to get--we have that continued intransigence, that you will continue to look at other initiatives.

We fell down.

I want to just reiterate a point that I think both Ms. Lamb-Hale and Mr. Kilmer made, and that is the real dire problem we have got in terms of getting the manufacturing business access to capital, I think we are at a crisis mode right now.

I wholly agree with you--and I think it is more than just in manufacturing; it is across our country--that education needs to be a primary focus for our workforce.

Nobody is better about that than Sherrod Brown.

I share his concern about currency manipulation by China, and I think it is an issue that we do--it is our responsibility to take on.

The traditional canard... that somehow the reason we cannot compete on a manufacturing basis is because our wages are way too high is not based in fact.

These would be foreign-based jobs coming back in, or jobs that might locate otherwise abroad targeted directly at IT and at manufacturing.