I believe the President's price tag on the proposal was--I thought he said last night around $900 billion over 10; is that correct?

I presume you are going to try to make it up on the other end of it as a proposal, but I wonder if you are going to really end up with a better system than if you would go incrementally at these pieces where we are now.

He does not believe that the plan should add to the deficit, $1 to the deficit.

Wouldn't we be better off to be very narrow and focused on incremental movement and getting our entitlement spending under control?

I think it is important if we can get at what is the actual universe and the number.

I would hope that we would look at this whole health care debate as one we would want to go at incrementally.

I am concerned about the way that the Federal government is addressing the economic downturn and, in particular, the lack of focus on jobs.

The stimulus was not adequately targeted towards job creation and foreclosure prevention which are weighing heavily on the economy.

Thus far, the stimulus has failed on all three fronts: funds have not been spent in a timely manner; spending has not been targeted to employment and foreclosure prevention.

It seems like that was the dynamite cap, a big one, and it has exploded the rest of it.

I think that we have to get through this storm.

I wish to thank Chair Maloney for arranging today's hearing and to thank today's expert panel on home foreclosures and foreclosure mitigation.