Mary Landrieu actually said...

North Louisiana has been especially hard hit, in particular, in the last year alone, with more than 2,000 manufacturing-related layoffs.

we will never find our way out of this recession unless we are aggressively identifying creditworthy emerging businesses.

the recovery package--and President Obama and his administration feel very strongly about this and have invested $7 billion for the Nation.

I hope that the series of these hearings will help develop some strategy and call attention to some of these issues.