From my perspective anyway, if we are going to be able to assure that another generation of Coloradans are able to farm or one after that, we need some answer to this question on how to reserve our water resources.

I would argue that what we are seeing is one of the most significant, if not the most significant, investment in new opportunities in rural America that we have seen in a long, long time.

I candidly believe that we have a potential flood of foreclosures waiting in the wings.

I would like to join the Chairman in saying, if there are things that we haven't done, let us know what those things are because this housing issue is a fundamental issue for our families and also our economic recovery depends on our…

I have exhausted my savings, had to disburse my 401(k) to pay bills and attempt to save my house.

I hope as you bring these servicers in and you will look at which servicers are actually acting in good faith and which are not.

I am wondering, as this gets ramped up, whether there is some way we can work with lenders to forestall some of these foreclosures.

I just would underscore what you have heard today, which is that the visibility and the urgency with which the issues in New York and Wall Street were addressed needs to not come in first in this race of urgency, because our homeowners are…

We have got to get this out sooner, quicker, faster, more expeditiously.

With respect to 'too-big-to-fail,' which people have talked about, from the point of view of the people living in Northeast Colorado who lost what to many people would seem was a very small bank, that bank was too big to fail for them.

It would seem to me--that is an interesting point, Mr. Johnson, on the criteria question...

I think it is a very good reminder that we need to be very careful about how we think about our financial institutions in this country because they are not all the same and not all of them contributed to the situation that we now find…