Bob Wise: “I would just say for the benefit of the previous two speakers that nobody disagrees that one of the best things we can…”

But I have to point out, the enormous costs of restructuring the financial institutions, the banks, the auto industry, even AIG, total all of those up, it is still less than the combined cost of 5 years of dropouts in this country.

the first chart tells us the story, I guess in black and white, on steel imports and why this Congress must act today to do something about steel imports and illegal dumping. We can see, from 1997 to 1998, the large increase in steel…

Mr. Chairman, it is not to offer an amendment. I just want to assure the chairman and ranking member there was a statement I wanted to make very briefly concerning the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act which was a significant…

We also believe we have to get accountability right. That means the State-led efforts to develop common standards so now there is an overarching set of standards that the States have agreed to, internationally benchmarked.