Much more needs to be done.

I appreciate the work that Senator Murray has done in the Women Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2009.

I agree with the President that we must reform our Nation's financial regulatory system.

These projects will spur development and help create the good-paying jobs in the high-tech and clean energy sector that will utilize the ability of Ohio's skilled manufacturing workers.

I've been encouraged by the Administration's commitment to promoting economic development and affordable housing options that create greener, more sustainable communities.

The problem we have, we have this arcane scoring system in this Congress where we don't--in some sense, as we pay for healthcare reform, we don't get the score, we don't get the credit, if you will, when we do prevention healthcare and…

Senator Dodd and Senator Casey, whom Chris mentioned earlier, introduced legislation this week, the Pediatric Workforce Investment Act, to create a loan repayment program for licensed physicians who decide to go into a pediatric…

Your comments and questions and answers you elicited were particularly helpful.

There's a program in Mansfield, OH, where they had particularly high low-birth weight baby rates.

Today, many of the same critics calling for specific concessions from workers and from bond holders are now saying the government-backed plans unfairly advantage one stakeholder over another.

God knows when you represent a State like I do, you see what kind of hits communities take and you see what kind of hits workers take.

It angers me when I hear these restructuring proposals for Chrysler and GM portrayed as giveaways to the United Auto Workers.

I have looked at the full picture for 10 years, Mr. Secretary, and I have not seen the progress.

So are you raising--if it was a firestorm in this country when we give billions to banks and they pay huge bonuses, you have not seen anything yet for what is going to happen if we put billions into auto companies and they shut down plants…

Today, there are manufacturers in Ohio, in every State in the country, trying to figure out how to remain viable.

I remember the appointment, and it just sort of did not really work out.

I hear universally that even in a State with higher-than-national-average unemployment, people cannot find--in all kinds of businesses and all kinds of organizations, they cannot find a skilled workforce.

What will happen to manufacturing if we do not make sure that the GM restructuring plan is focused less on the bottom line and more on making sure production is kept here.

But to exclude the major defense--it is OK to exclude the major defense contractors because credit is not--I mean, we have--there is a limited amount of money.

I hope today we can learn more about these trends and discuss some of the policy options Congress should consider to help manufacturers.

How do we sell that better to people?

We are working on something called the SECTORS Act to bring together local--to have local people to make it sort of homegrown organically coming from them.

He had problems with his airplane getting here--not his airplane. USAir's airplane.

Manufacturing, as we know, is integrally tied to U.S. prosperity.

We also need a trade policy that works for working Americans.