David McKinley: “I know we are going to have some impact on that.”

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

With all due respect, Chairman Rush--and we have been friends for years--this hearing seems to be taking on an air of distraction from what Americans are really dealing with across this country.

Come on, man. We can do better than this. Our communities in States like West Virginia and New Hampshire and Delaware are expecting something far better than that kind of response.

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.