In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.