Too many people are out of work.

We want to get this right. And what is worth it is getting, as everyone here has said, on both sides, getting people back to work.

Fourteen months ago, Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate agreed on commonsense reforms to the unemployment insurance system designed to help more Americans return to work sooner.

What term would you use to describe that, because I have had this issue with people on the other side of the aisle?

I believe it is 25 percent short in what they are going to be reimbursing the providers.

The bottom line is that the system is going bankrupt. It is going to be underfunded. We need to solve it.

So the best that you did with this budget, under your opinion, is that you moved it 5 years.

Do you think we can balance or make Medicare solvent in perpetuity by leaving the system in the exact same way that it is today?

I want Medicare to be solvent. I don't want people that are 50... to say, I am 54, and all you are telling me is that it is going to be bankrupt?

My question is this: Why do you think a summary document prepared by the White House says that that same policy strengthening the solvency of the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund reduces spending by 50 billion?

Can you explain to me--I want to be in a learning mode just like my friend from Ohio. Can you explain to me and the folks around the country why it is so important for families to balance their checkbook, balance their budget--they didn't…