And that was an argument that I was willing to go out and make to a lot of skeptical Democrats, as you saw yesterday.
You saw that in the Vice President laying out the electric vehicles goal -- the goal of hitting 1 million advanced technology vehicles by 2015 -- and you saw it yesterday when the President actually went to one of the regional innovation hubs.
The President, as you saw yesterday, is committed to doing it and to doing it quickly, and to not just calling on Congress to do these things -- because as he made clear yesterday, this is something that even these steps will not alone address if all of them are achieved by Congress.
So you saw this announced yesterday a provision where Americans can get a very substantial credit against the purchase of a new house.
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And you saw what I said yesterday and heard what I said yesterday, and our assessment of it.
You saw the same thing yesterday when we were in Alabama and Mississippi.
You saw the export numbers yesterday--up 20.4% year-on-year.
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And you saw I think from him yesterday how seriously he plans to address this.
And then finally, a discussion about the small business lending facility and loan program that the President believes -- and you saw the comments from Chairman Bernanke yesterday about the need to get -- continue to get increased capital to small business and why that is so important in our economic recovery.
And that includes, by the way, export promotion not just for large companies but also for medium-size and small companies, because one of the challenges -- I was up in New Hampshire yesterday, and you saw this terrific new company that had just been started up -- it's only got 13, 14 employees at this point.
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You saw really in direct, concrete terms yesterday the kinds of opportunities that are going to exist in Asia with the announcement of the commercial transactions that the President announced yesterday.
And I was out in New Jersey yesterday and saw the devastation, and you really get a sense of how difficult this is going to be for a lot, a lot of people.
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