The job of the Fed is to set monetary policy, and I believe that when the Fed strays from that into other areas that we get in trouble.

I was deeply concerned about the Council of Economic Advisers' report earlier this week that indicated that outsourcing jobs to other countries is good for our economy.

This ended with the historic initiative culminating in Congress passing this legislation on a bipartisan, virtually unanimous basis.

15,000?

Then the pool could be bigger. Maybe you could make the pool bigger.

All right. One other suggestion for the Department to move claims along faster is to group claims together.

Well then, your number is completely wrong, if they have not gone through the process.

I did not say--in less than 50 percent of the cases.

Does the Department expect that it can continue to process 100 claims per week? How much more will the Department commit to processing and eliminating the backlog?

All I can tell you is that I was carrying the water between the House and the Senate when this was being done and it was our intent that each worker have a final determination and be paid.

I am telling you that is not what the intent of the Congress was.