Why would we invest in a country where the debt is going to be unsustainable, where the deficits are unsustainable, and where they are basically saying if you are a productive individual, a small businessman who wants to take a risk, we…

You said essentially that you are controlling spending. Well, you are not.

And reducing debt and deficit to a sustainability level is at the core of accomplishing that.

You are taking and creating a 30-percent tax increase on capital gains. You are saying to the people who are small business people, we are going to increase your taxes from a 35-percent to a 42-percent effective rate.

Unless we stabilize the financial institutions of this country, we cannot recover.

Doesn't the present subsidy structure of ethanol, which perversely promotes corn, undermine the ability to aggressively pursue those other forms of biomass?

Will you be promoting additional lending authority--for example, $50 billion was taken out of the stimulus package--to assist in the construction of nuclear power plants?

Shouldn't we be drilling for a lot more natural gas in the United States?

I appreciate that, and I think your voice would be extraordinarily helpful because you are so highly regarded for your expertise.

I look at the constituencies who have been active in the Democratic Party, and many of them actively oppose nuclear power.

I think this is critical to our ability to lessen our dependence on oil and to address the climate change issues which are so essential.