I think it is desperately needed.

We have got to stop the hemorrhaging of people losing their homes, and I would just underscore that point.

I would urge you, first of all, to keep us informed as to what is happening, what the facts are.

It is aggressive in dealing with the short-term problems that you inherited.

Forty-seven million people without health insurance is extremely expensive to our economy.

I believe if you use current values for President Clinton's health care proposal, it would probably add up to about $1.1 trillion.

I encourage you to establish reasonable goals as to how we can wean ourselves off of imported energy sources, particularly oil.

We need to be able to judge how we are achieving energy independence.

We currently spend twice as much as comparable countries spend on health care and we don't have the results to reflect that type of investment.

I think it is an honest budget.

I articulated the opinion that we should close Guantanamo not long after I got this job, in--at the end of 2006.