Every child in America deserves health care coverage. We cannot continue to place selfish ideology above the health of our children.

Insurance companies should not be allowed to cherry pick those who they cover based upon pre-existing conditions.

Nobody should be financially destroyed due to a catastrophic illness.

There must be universality of access to health care.

We must respect the right of individuals to choose health insurance and providers.

I ask unanimous consent that before concluding that members who did not have an opportunity to ask questions of our witness be given 7 days to submit questions for the record.

Can we conclude from what you have just said and from what you are seeing that the favorable factors in our economy today may be glimmers of hope, may be harbingers of an economy that is recovering?

Thank you very much indeed.

This year, Congress has passed and the President has signed into law a $787 billion recovery package to spur demand and create 3 million new jobs.

We convene today to review the state of our economy, a dismal state, and its interaction with the budget.

simply giving away pollute-for-free allowances to certain industries does not work.

To help put the economy back on its feet, Congress enacted the Troubled Assets Relief Program in October.