Kit Bond: “I had raised those earlier, Pat, before you came, and they had--we had one little $25 million rural housing program for…”

I believe strongly we take for granted our defense base will always be there, maintaining capacity and innovation to keep the United States and our warfighters second to none.

You mentioned that you are still confident in the official $5.8 billion estimate or whatever it was that OMB came up with.

I think one of the most critical values that will come of financial reform, if it gets passed, which I strongly encourage, is that without question, no one is carving out the products that you address.

We are going to have a bunch for the record.