"the more eyes, the better, clearly"
"It would indeed be unfortunate and ironic if money is lost to waste, fraud, and abuse because States had insufficient funds to hire the necessary contracting officials, auditors, and oversight employe..."
"I think a lot of the work that you are doing, while extremely worthwhile, is probably the tip of the iceberg."
"we have to make sure that we do what the President said we are going to do, which is that we are going to watch every dime."
"We remain determined to protect this critical spending from waste, fraud, and mismanagement."
"I think it is extremely unfortunate that the omnibus bill has not been revised to take into account the recently appropriated funds in the stimulus bill."
"I think there ought to be some flexibility to maybe shift some of the time frames for when the money is spent."
"It is essential to effectively achieving the objective of the President's March 4, 2009 memo to have the capacity and ability to develop, manage, and oversee acquisitions appropriately."
"I think you've brought forth a bill that will really make a difference."
"the acquisition workforce... is the number-one problem, over and over again."
"it's imperative that we build up the Afghan army as quickly as possible so that the Afghans are taking a lead"
"My related concern is that we're putting an American face on the effort."
"One of the reasons that we are seeing some success in Iraq is not just the addition of more troops, but rather a change in strategy that accompanied the addition of more troops."
"the United States is going to have to take a bigger role, that the United States is going to have to take a stronger leadership position"
"That is the most powerful component in this bill to create jobs."
"That is the most powerful component in this bill, to create jobs."
"Some of these programs, while they're worthy of an increase in funding, simply do not belong in an economic stimulus bill."
"If the bill comes back from the conference committee with a lot of wasteful spending reinserted or if it comes back in excess of the $800 billion, it will not have my support."
