I think this kind of oversight is so important.
I can assure you we are going to hold you to it because it is important.
I agree with you that there are some agencies, DOD is an example, where there has been such a diminution of the acquisit...
I believe that you need to understand that there will be resistance to this in some agencies despite their evident need ...
Your point that a one-size-fits-all approach should not be taken is a good one.
Senator Snowe supports a trigger to force states to offer a public plan only if other reforms don't work.
It's regrettable because I certainly have worked in good faith all of these months and in a bipartisan basis.
It's regrettable, because I certainly have worked in good faith all of these months on a bipartisan basis and, as you kn...
private meetings are not the same as public hearings. And they are not. The public cannot see them.
I think Congress should be able to call Carol Browner, the President's energy and environmental czar, to ask her about t...
I think it creates a real problem when Congress specifically creates in law a position that is Senate-confirmed, that is...
this issue has been of concern to me for many months.
I personally believe that it is undermining the promises that President Obama has made to the American people for increa...
I will continue to call them 'czars,' at least to the conclusion of this hearing and until a solution is found.
When Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which we wrote in 2004, we created by statute...
the basic strength of our country, of a democracy, is transparency.
The responsibility of Congress to oversee the Executive Branch is fundamental to our constitutional system.
I am not proposing that the President be barred from creating these new positions to focus on important policy prioritie...
