you just talked about. displays bush years, the enormous losses of jobs. right down here at the bottom, that s when the obama administration started in 2009. and each month thereafter, each quarter, we saw an improvement. we didn t see the jobs coming back in the private sector until the last several months but clearly in the last several months, those jobs are there. the unemployment rate has not dropped, because it is the government jobs that are now being lost, but nonetheless, a net gain in the jobs mr. tonko: absolutely, the progress we wanted to witness. it s never fast enough after we lost 8.2 million jobs. and american households loss $18.5 trillion. that was pain that was very deep and dark and it s never fast enough, but it is a rise in the right direction and a movement that continues to that road of progress. mr. garamendi: you raised a very important part, the industrial strength of america has almost always occurred as a result of the research and innovation t