Well, I would say that her opinion probably rules, if you look at how she actually ruled on this.
I thought you so succinctly described the effect that her ruling had on many, many people across this country.
Does that tend to be an indicator that there is some glimmer of hope here?
The Joint Economic Committee will come to order.
I want to thank all of you, and you just did a marvelous job in stating your opinions.
Let us all remember that there are real people behind these statistics.
That is what led us in Congress to extend unemployment benefits, something that we always did in the past.
We need to get our act together here in terms of these financial regulations.
we're going to be working on health care reform this year, and if we're able to bring some costs down and make it more affordable and do it ...
You can't tell someone who has lost their job 'Hey, we've seen some good increases in consumer confidence.' That's not going to help them.
So these are people that are discouraged workers, that can't quite get the money they need or the hours they need?