There are very severe, long-lasting costs associated with unemployment rates at the level we are seeing.
Was the trajectory of Federal spending and Federal Reserve policy more appropriate at the end of 2000 or the end of 1999 than it is today?
I think from my view, the faster we get this accomplished, then we can move on to some of the other issues we have talked about today.
So you would concur that our effort today to pass health care reform is critical to our economic future.
I think jobs are the issue right now, and I think it is not just today's incomes, today's production.
that was agreed to by the Bush administration as a hard deadline without conditions.
Even with the most dedicated and talented government in Kabul, Afghani Government, the ability to reach out into the provinces is limited.
Some of the criticism of even talking about a date... is that it would embolden the enemy.
I think most people had a suspicion as they saw during the first decade of this century that no real increases in income, yet financial exec...
I think this legislation is timely, appropriate, and extremely important.
I am pleased not only to be here today, but also to be a cosponsor of Senator Dodd's FAIR Overdraft Coverage Act.