The gut-wrenching job losses in today's report highlight the misery and dislocation that American families have been enduring since the start of this recession more than a year ago.

Letter to Hon. Ben Bernanke.

Congress should seek ways to expand the law and to extend coverage to all workers and their families, including those led by same-sex couples.

One option to remedy this glaring inequity would be for Congress to pass the Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act.

Couldn't this reasonably be described as looting the company prior to the merger?

How can you justify paying bonuses to managers who were running their company into the ground to the point that they were forced into a merger?

But recently, Secretary Geithner said that we were shoring up banks not for the sake of the banks, but for the sake of American taxpayers.

What gets me is we keep trying so many things, and what I am hearing from the public and what I hear from my colleagues in Congress is that the loans are not getting out to the public.

They would like to know how that money was spent and who were the counterparties and what were the guarantees.

Over the past 6 months, the Fed has been tremendously proactive in its efforts to preserve liquidity and help our economy to recover.

We have to keep working, we have to pass it. There is a lot of push-back from the financial industry.