median family income has actually fallen over the decade.

that, unlike the political stuff we are all talking about in Washington that actually does not make any sense to people at home, that is the issue that they are confronting, is what I just described.

the worst the unemployment rate got for people in this recession with a college degree was 4.5 percent, and there is a lot, I think, that we can learn from that.

the risk that you are worrying about is interest rate risk for our financial institutions and economy.

The conservation title, particularly the easement programs like the Grasslands Reserve Program, the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program, are absolutely vital to farmers and ranchers in Colorado.

Well, I am very glad to hear you say that because that is our number one issue in Colorado.

what in the rest of the country can be seen as a water quality issue, in the West it really is a water quantity issue

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I want to thank you for the work that you have done--when the Super Committee was supposed to be doing its work, and not doing its work terribly well.

We have, as you know, an enormous sense of urgency about it because there are the safety issues that you mentioned;

I am encouraging this Congress to basically say we have had enough of this divisive discussion; let us solve this problem.