Tom Harkin actually said...

For people with disabilities, it is over 60 percent unemployment, and for people with hearing disabilities, it is, about 52 percent.

We are making history. It's the first time, first time a congressional committee has met for an official hearing and every witness is deaf.

I hope to have--some things take a little time. But I am now working with the Secretary of Defense, an old classmate of mine, by the way.

It is awful when we hear unemployment statistics that we have, what, 9 percent unemployment.