When something happens, Congress has to have a more mature reaction.

I view the European solution, the CoCo mechanism, as superior because it warns the banks when they are in danger of being--

What I'm fishing for is, what is the balance of, you know, human suffering and death versus economic goals?

I was wondering just in general, you know, if you for whatever philosophical approach to this you take, how would you calculate the economically optimum number of people to die in Ohio each year?

The title of the hearing is that the Power Plan will shut down power plants.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are living through the aftermath of a disaster caused by the complete failure of Republican monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy.

The House and Senate will soon go to conference on a customs bill that was part of a trade package that was mostly passed into law last month.

Thank you, and I'd like to thank the whole Research and Technology Subcommittee, including the Chair, Congresswoman Comstock, and Ranking Member Lipinski for allowing me to join you here today.

It is interesting to look at the trend here that you see, for example, in the Kennedy Administration, we had the strongest period of job growth in our country's history.

Let's--one sort of big picture question I have is that there are a number of ways that we invest money.