Ben Bernanke actually said...

If you want to increase spending, then you have to be willing to accept the tax increases and the consequences that that may have for growth...

Then they would have to avail themselves of the Treasury's backstop.

It is imperative on all of us as the policymakers, particularly the Congress which is responsible for fiscal policy, to make sure that we do...

Yes, sir, our expectation is that we will begin to see growth in the economy, so the end of the technical recession, later this year.