I appreciate what you are both doing, first to spend the money that we have appropriated.
I always feel the best thing government can do is to try to help people get and hold good jobs to provide for themselves...
So you would say your minimal goal for the use of the Medicaid reimbursement or support that is part of this bill, is th...
I do want to say how pleased I am that the Acting Comptroller General, Mr. Dodaro, is today going to release before this...
I presume, if I can draw you out on that, that would have meant significant layoffs of teachers and other school personn...
We share the burden of living up to the expectations of the American people and delivering the transparency and accounta...
They know they need it. But they are worried about whether we are going to spend it effectively.
I think it would be a perfect focus at the outset to take some of the contracts issued pursuant to the stimulus.
This is really too critical, too big, and as I said at the beginning, it is too big for us to let it fail.
We reacted in this emergency with an unprecedented spending program and a pressure to spend it quickly.
I appreciate it, because obviously--and, of course, we will see some of this from the macro economic data, but we hope t...
I cannot think of a better preparation for this job that he had than to be a State Senator.
The whole reason for the Recovery Act was to create or save jobs.
I mean, it is hard to imagine that putting this much money out into the economy would not help some.
the overall result of almost $800 million in Federal funding is unreservedly positive.
So on that chart, what jumps out at me, certainly, and I presume would at others, is that a relatively small proportion ...
No.
the main goal of the stimulus package was to get money out into the economy quickly to stop the slide down of our econom...