I would like to see how we might be able to streamline some of that because there is a recurrent theme that we hear.

Thank you for holding this important hearing.

I was on the floor, imploring people to stop screaming at each other over our debt and our deficit.

If you are born into a low-income neighborhood in this country, your chances of graduating with a college degree are around 9 in 100.

I am glad you raised that. My time is up, but I would say on that point that the two groups of people in the town halls that are worried the most and that I worry about the most are people in their 50's that are finding themselves out of…

the cooperation between the private sector and the Federal Government that made those things possible

People never thought that they would be displaced in an economic downturn or thought that they would be working for less at the end of the 10-year period than they were at the beginning.

If I had to pick one economic fact out of the mix that worries me the most, it is the decline of median family income in this country.

I strongly supported the creation of that Small Business Lending Fund, but Senator Udall and I and others fought to include his legislation for credit unions in that bill.

credit unions are an important source of credit for individuals and small businesses in this country, and it's important that we ask what they can do to help get our economy grow again.

Senator Udall's bill will provide a much-needed boost to help small businesses expand and hire.