The talks are constructive; progress is being made. But a lot of significant issues have yet to be resolved.

All I would say is the talks are constructive and progress has been made. But I'm not going to speculate on how close an agreement is. In my experience in talks like these, close and near are awfully subjective terms.

Talks are constructive, and progress is being made.

I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.

I can't tell you today what those packages will be. That's going to be subject to discussion.

And there'll likely be a four- to six-week interval between the initial filing and an actual hearing. Then the judge has a 30-day window to render a decision. It could be well into the spring.

The suggestion that we have an outline of an agreement to review with you is unfortunately, just not true.

(Shoemaker) said that if they did file those motions, it would be an impediment to future progress. He also said that we would continue discussions with GM and Delphi and if Delphi filed these motions, then we'd have to determine how to go forward from here.

Steve Miller has been very vocal, very blunt in saying he believes the days when industrial workers in America can have a middle-class standard of living are over. We think that's a very arrogant and wrongheaded notion and also a very dangerous view of America's future.