I think it is very, very important what Senator Bunning was talking about.

Absent the first TARP, the system would have collapsed.

$350 billion is a staggering amount of money. Staggering.

health care is where it is at.

We are in the midst of the worst economic downturn our country has faced since the Great Depression.

This credit crunch is real and it is having a ripple effect way beyond what we had seen in the 1982 downturn.

I believe strongly in an economic recovery package. I have got issues with this one.

62 percent of the outlays is after 2 years.

I tend to have more confidence in the CBO estimate, to be honest with you.

I was extremely encouraged by the President's Inaugural Address yesterday and by his comments obviously prior to that.

Obviously, if you lived through the Great Depression you may have seen it, but nobody else has seen it.

We face one of the worst budget forecasts I have ever seen.

Whatever you do, don't take these properties into Government hands.

Whatever one calls it, it is not what Senator Gregg and I have tried to send as a message.

I believe the models that we are using now cannot capture the difference in the threat that we face.

I am very concerned about debt. I am concerned about national debt, corporate debt, individual debt.

It is designed to jump-start the economy, create jobs, lay a foundation for long-term economic growth.

I believe the economic recovery package as it is now structured does not adequately address the underlying housing and financial market crises.