Michael Bennet

A lot of people do not know that our gross domestic product is actually higher today than it was before we went into this recession.

The ability to create an environment in this country that is entrepreneurial is so critical.

The only way it is going to be resolved, I think, is through the kind of initiatives that the Senator from Kansas has talked about and by educating our people.

So much of the debate that we have around this place is this left-right discussion that no one at home really understands and, frankly, find meaningless.

Thank you very much for your testimony.

I look forward to working with Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Shelby, and the rest of my colleagues to see that the Senate passes a significant package of legislative proposals to help small companies raise capital and grow their…

I predict that this is going to be your everyday business.

I like the sound of that.

Education, which I know is very near and dear to Senator Bennet's heart...

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.

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

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:37 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at 9:30 a.m.

Tomorrow we will continue to work on a process to complete action on the surface transportation bill. ____________________

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

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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

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

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.

I think the Administration bringing this up is important.

I do not get it when you could create a large base of continuing responsible borrowers at the end of the day.

I think there are ways that we could think more creatively that fund something a little bit like the Home Owner Loan Corporation.