And a corollary to that, I just recently had a major car dealer get in touch of me...

Thank you for this testimony this morning.

There needs to be a coordinated activity with a common set of objectives, working together as much as possible in an organized way to achieve those objectives.

I would like for you to comment, if you will, on the wisdom of a tax policy given the fact that in your testimony you said that the national debt is going to amount to 70 percent of GDP for the next 10 years.

Could you comment on the fact that we have just passed and sent to the President a major small business lending bill?

I hope and pray is going to be successful, but since they have a threshold that they have to get 14 votes of 18 on the Commission, there is a lot of skepticism that they are going to be able to get that on whatever the package is that they…

It is going to be good for America. I was pleased to sponsor the amendment along with my friend from Louisiana, the LeMieux-Landrieu amendment, which is the lending facility. It is a provision that will bring money to local community banks…

if the Senator would further yield, why do we have to mess up this bill with message amendments? These are political message amendments. For example, there are some amendments that on their own might be desirable amendments. There is an…

this issue is very simply characterized as Main Street versus Wall Street. It is a question of whether we are serious about reviving this economy and getting money into the hands of small business through community banks. Anybody voting no…

I will say this in conclusion, if the Senator will yield further, every one of us has small businesses in our States. The economic engine of Florida is small business. It is those very people who have come forth in this recession and have…

I would ask the Senator, in light of the extremely descriptive word picture that she painted of the family at the breakfast table and the mom and the dad don't want the teenagers to see that folks on Wall Street are getting all of these…

First of all, I don't want the Senator to be rushed because I came over here so that I could hear the Senator. The Senator from Louisiana is so articulate and so passionate. She has laid the case out with the bare facts that if there is…