Steny Hoyer: “We have a crisis that confronts us. We have lost over 2.5 million jobs. We lost a million jobs in the last 2 months.…”

“We have a crisis that confronts us. We have lost over 2.5 million jobs. We lost a million jobs in the last 2 months. People are hurting. We have and I know of you have a sense of urgency. We have worked with this administration to try to respond to the economic crisis that confronts us. Very frankly, Democrats worked in a very bipartisan way and a very supportive way with this President and the Secretary of Treasury in trying to respond to this crisis. As a matter of fact, I would suggest that Democrats were more responsive to the President's request and Secretary Paulson's request than some Members of his own party. But that aside, we believe we need to act, as I said, with dispatch. We are doing that.”