I want to wish our colleague, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, our very best in her recovery and make sure she knows that she will be missed.

Let me just take this from 30,000 feet for a minute and reiterate what the gentleman from Ohio said. We have too much private money in the people's House. We can't get anything done now because it somehow may affect what Wall Street is…

Carrying oxygen tanks and everything else. And there just has been a disrespect for that kind of work--the sanitation worker, the custodian, the teacher--pushing the blame of all society's problems onto these public workers in that…

If the gentleman will yield, I think there's really something to this idea that there's a lot of things that happen that support our economy that we take for granted, that we don't see all the time. And I think what you're talking about…

And a respect for the workers who are ultimately going to elevate this. And we see that within manufacturing, how the ideas and the intellectual property that come from the factory floor are driven by those workers who are sitting there…

I thank the gentleman. He hit the nail right on the head when he was articulating the kind of things, whether in New York or Ohio or anywhere in the country, really what the essence is, and that's resuscitating manufacturing back in the…

And I don't think anybody's of the illusion that somehow a coalition like this is going to agree on every issue. But what happened in Ohio was that there was a prioritization of what really matters, of what are the fundamental issues that…

We need transparency on the actions of the PBGC and the administration regarding the treatment of the Delphi salaried retirees.

So if we level off the playing field with these guys, we can compete. With transportation costs going up, we can compete. We have the productivity. We have the workforce. We just need a level playing field. So I ask, Mr. Speaker, that this…

I thank the gentleman. I'd just like to build on a point that the gentleman from New Jersey was making. We need investments into our economy. This is an opportunity for us to get private investments into our economy. And the gentleman from…

I thank the gentlelady. A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity of having Congressman Lewis in Youngstown and then up into Cleveland. And to sit here and listen to him talk about it, it's not words on a piece of paper. As he said, it's not…

I think we have to have some real understanding of what we are doing here. And is this really what we want to do, given the risks that we see facing us around the world?