I just hope and pray that we will be able to execute on that bar that we have set.
Individuals are going to be a little skeptical now that their identity could be swiped so easily.
How can the Committee and the Congress as a whole aid in your efforts to implement the Recovery Act?
I am trying to get at the fraud or abuse of the funds, whether or not that project really was a worthy recovery type of ...
We need to have everyone counted and my assessment of that is that there is a way of doing it.
But you know what will be reported, the sensational story where the one person got away with a major contract.
Because we cannot make any mistakes here. This is our last shot at the public coming down on us.
Are there any new ways we can employ to combat undercounting typically underrepresented--any technology.
Can we look at that now? We have about 18 months, you said, isn't it? No, 12 months.
I think about the fraud issue and abuse issue, and being a former attorney general of my State, would certainly say that...
Well, in Illinois, they are coming to me saying how can they get their local businesses to get a piece of this action.
After-tax income for the middle segment of the population has been roughly stagnant for too long now.
The effect of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, in my district, something like 95 percent of the people living in my dist...
It's a plan that won't help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to affor...
We will stop outsourcing services that should be performed by the government, open up the contracting process to small b...
Over the last eight years, government spending on contracts has doubled to over half a trillion dollars. Far too often t...
We thought it was important for us to be able to step back for a moment and remind ourselves that we have things in comm...
I'm proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks. And I want...
