we appropriated, believe it or not, $250 million over the 2 years for the hiring of additional inspectors and investigat...
It is too early to say. There are obviously some glimmerings of hope about some movement in the right direction in the e...
The agencies are going to be actively involved in looking at that data along with their State recipient counterparts.
The danger of a jobless recovery remains all too real.
You are going to be able to do a lot of things and slice and dice the data any number of ways you want.
Obviously, you will keep monitoring and let us know if you think that it is moving more slowly to State and local govern...
the question that we will always ask is if we are getting this money out as quickly as we can.
I am pleased to hear about how many States and localities have created Web sites to provide accountability and transpare...
history of fiscal stimulus is not always a happy one because a lot of times the moneys arrived after the economy has beg...
Or to individuals.
I think the Federal, State, and local governments are trying to work very hard together.
We hold this hearing on the heels of what I would call mixed news about our economy.
I mentioned in my opening statement that the Federal Reserve made a decision to pay off at par value sophisticated inves...
I think all of us wish we were here today instead talking about how to help those struggling to get by.
During the fourth quarter of 2008, who represented the government's 80 percent ownership of AIG?
Public confidence in what we are doing is at stake.
that we find ourselves in this situation at all is, in my mind, and the minds of many of my constituents, quite frankly,...
we are here in the wake of the fourth plan to rescue AIG, once again committing tens of billions of dollars.
