"I am hopeful that we don't see from this administration those kinds of proposals for increased copays and fees."
"We want it not to be business as usual. We want to not hear just about a bureaucracy, but about a people organization."
"Fear."
"I wish it was in someone else's, but it is not. And I am responsible, as we all are, for making sure we fund that."
"We have a moral and a legal obligation--I wish we did not, but we do--to clean up those sites."
"If we can use this time to get significant funding in there to reduce the size of those sites, it will be cost effective in the future."
"Obviously, from a scientific perspective, this outcome would be unacceptable to us in the State of Washington and, I think, to the whole Northwest and probably to the entire country if they were more ..."
"But would you support increasing the Hanford funding? It may need as much as $2 billion over the next 4 years to meet that cleanup schedule."
"Making sure that we empower our local communities to provide a pathway for all of our students to the careers of tomorrow is extremely important."
"In this time of economic turmoil, I can think of no better way to improve our economy and maintain that competitive edge for the coming decades than investment in skills for our students today to make..."
"It is tremendously important that we have somebody at the head of this agency who is really going to tackle a lot of issues to get this country back on track."
"The mantra of the last 8 years has been No Child Left Behind. I would like to see that changed so that every child has the skill we need."
