Evan Bayh: “I note that estimates show that $5 trillion in bank debt may be coming due in 2012.”

Well, and if they have to be focused on capital preservation, then obviously they are not lending, and that is yet another drag upon the recovery, isn't it?

The closer you got to the center of the city where Susan was, the worse and worse things got.

The Fed, though, is now engaged in some rather extraordinary efforts, which I support, to prevent a lapse back into a more sluggish economy.

I rise today to honor the life of SSG Kevin Matthew Pape of the U.S. Army and Fort Wayne, IN. Staff Sergeant Pape was assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, in the 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. He was 30 years old…