Will your experience in going and looking at those high-risk facilities give us some useful information, practical information to help us in the reauthorization issues?
How long do you expect it will take to approve the plans? And how long will it take to inspect the facilities?
There are many specific situations where it may not be worth the cost.
There are, as I understand it, a number of current standards which are inconsistent with the House bill.
I would suggest to you the theory of 'too big to fail' now means that many of our businesses are too small to grow.
I strongly support... programs like the one we have in Michigan to address collateral depreciation issues.
We have done a lot for the big banks, but the lifeblood of our local communities are these small banks, community banks.
The percentage of the reduction in the number of loans going to small businesses is dramatic.
the real lifeblood of many local economies--local banks--don't have it nearly so good.
Unemployment in my State is almost 15 percent, and it is unacceptably high in most States.
If we do not act, and quickly, to help restore employment, the 'green shoots' for which we have so much hope will not blossom.