"I believe it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that does not happen."
"The Administration has estimated that more than 3 million jobs will either be saved or created by this Act."
"If recovery is to be successful in cities and towns, the first most important thing we need to do is help educate our local leaders."
"My concern about having two different methods of measuring job creation or the number of jobs saved is that it could serve to undermine the public's confidence in the credibility of the numbers."
"Double-counting types of situations, because the one you were describing, an argument could be made, well, did that second job then kill 50 jobs."
"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is vital legislation intended to boost our troubled economy and to create and save jobs."
"These funds must be disbursed quickly to meet the goal of stimulating the economy."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just one final question for me."
"It is critical. I am very pleased that Maine has the opposite situation of Connecticut."
"Preventing fraud in the execution of stimulus funding is a key element to the ultimate success of the Recovery Act."
"Striking the right balance between speed and caution has been a challenging task."
"the success of the pilot program, in our view, is also very important to striking the right balance, as Senator Collins was talking about, between accountability and getting the money out quickly."
"This mistake may cost taxpayers about $2.5 million and it could easily have been prevented."
"It becomes difficult, and the problems are obvious as you try to measure this."
"I think we need to more aggressively look at the internal controls in the Federal Government as well as at the State and local levels."
"While there are obvious issues with Congressional oversight, accountability, and transparency with the creation of new czar positions within the Executive Office of the President, that is a totally di..."
"I appreciate your including that aspect in this hearing."
"Thank you for your leadership on this set of hearings that we have been holding."
