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...
As much as 7 percent of the Recovery Act funds may be lost to fraud and abuse.
It would indeed be unfortunate and ironic if money is lost to waste, fraud, and abuse because States had insufficient fu...
These funds must be disbursed quickly to meet the goal of stimulating the economy.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is vital legislation intended to boost our troubled economy and to create and...
Double-counting types of situations, because the one you were describing, an argument could be made, well, did that seco...
It is critical to do so in a responsible and transparent way.
The more eyes that we have on this spending, the better.
I think that Senator McCaskill has raised an important point, and it is a point that I had intended to raise as well.
My concern about having two different methods of measuring job creation or the number of jobs saved is that it could ser...
If recovery is to be successful in cities and towns, the first most important thing we need to do is help educate our lo...
The Administration has estimated that more than 3 million jobs will either be saved or created by this Act.
I believe it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that does not happen.
It is going to be a challenge. I will not try to softball that one.
Do you support legislation that would allow for the rehiring of annuitants without their incurring a financial penalty?
I am fearful that a lot of people will fall for that scam because--and what I think was an error in policy--we did do th...
It is essential to effectively achieving the objective of the President's March 4, 2009 memo to have the capacity and ab...
