Egypt I think has a very good case for democracy. The people in the streets were peaceful.
I also want to thank Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, Mr. Thompson, for being here.
Each year the Department spends approximately one quarter of its annual budget on procurement.
Thank you for having this hearing on such an important issue.
The law that is under assault here this morning has high customer satisfaction across the State.
I want to thank the Chairman.
But nobody here is advocating an outright repeal.
I appreciate very much your being here, your testimony, and look forward to working with you. I am particularly concerne...
the need that they need to expand their staff and their technology in order to do this right, to get it right.
I am making a suggestion that if, in fact, we want to get this right, it is going to require the proper analysis, which ...
I hope, continue to press for a reasonable approach on the part of the bank examiners.
I had not previously thought that the Majority was waiting around for the President to suggest to them what to do.
I would like to ask all the witnesses if they have views on H.R. 4889.
We have suffered from excessive rigidity on the part of the regulators.
But did they have a backup plan? No. Have they been consistent on this? No.
No, they have had lots of mixed messages. They were very wobbly in the beginning.
They were very wobbly in the beginning. ... Where I think they do bear some blame is in not developing some alternative ...
All the hand-wringing and bed-wetting is going on without remembering how the House stepped up on this. What did we get ...
