Quality decisions will ultimately drive timeliness and accuracy.

VA has never done anything like that. We have asked questions of them and tried to get answers on this, and they really do not seem to know the answer.

Unfortunately, due to long delays in claims processing at the VA, it can take veterans years to get their appeals before the Court.

Is there a way of doing that so that those cases which have a great deal more certainty, so that the likelihood of error will be very, very small?

We not be outsmarted by Wall Street and that we in the Senate not be outsmarted by Wall Street.

Is there anything--or give me an assessment or any ideas about what we do to stimulate that part of the economy especially so that people--because, obviously, if there is more demand for auto production and appliances and all that comes…

You seem, Dr. Zandi, a good bit more polite toward the Chinese than they are toward us, but that is certainly your right.

Well, I guess I will ask it another way.

Elizabeth Warren came to see me the other day--I think you all know her--and she is a brilliant woman who has pretty much--I heard her sort of predict what housing was going to do to us 2 years ago.

You would be satisfied, you would consider it a victory for U.S. manufacturing, the U.S. economy, the U.S. Government, all of us, if China did 5 percent a year for the next 3 or 4 years?

Without a national industrial and manufacturing policy, we cannot fix this economy.

The absence of a policy of manufacturing and industrial policy allowed us yesterday to let CIT fail as a financial institution it would appear today.

I think that has little to do with any trade policy as much as it does less demand from American consumers, correct?

Should the Government adjust the way that it talks about unemployment?

The Congress, as you know, passed the Cash for Clunkers, which I was actually speaking today with the CEO of General Motors before I came over here about this hearing.

When I hear 'if they show progress,' that suggests patience, and there is--and it always suggests to me when I think about China and patience, I think of when Chou En-Lai was asked when he was--I think you will know this story.

We need to strongly consider the interests of energy-intensive, import-sensitive manufacturers in this through border adjustment and allowances and get the right solution.

Nor has the current account deficit?

Is there a danger if all of a sudden, if we start--if we start talking about extending that tax credit to people other than just first-time homebuyers, that that in some sense stops home purchases or slows home purchases until we actually…

Congress and the Administration working together need, in my opinion, to immediately enact such a policy, a formal one that puts American workers first.

I appreciate very much this hearing.

The second thing I hear repeatedly in almost every roundtable... is that employers... cannot find the right employees.

One is that infrastructure is a significant problem, water, sewer, highways, bridges, broadband, and infrastructure in terms of education too.

That is why I introduced with Senator Murray and Senator Snowe the Sectors Act to provide grants to industry or sector partnerships.

This job is harder perhaps than when you first thought about it.