Understates it. Do you agree with that, Dr. Johnson?
What was happening politically and morally was we were losing our discipline and people were buying into that language.
I believe, Mr. Secretary, the program is failing. The question is what are you going to do about it.
Are those numbers about right, what we're talking about, $9,600 per household? That's a lot of money?
This administration is no better manager of this program than the last administration.
But, of course, you cannot simultaneously use that money to fund a new program and also extend the life of Medicare.
Medicare and Social Security are on an insolvency trajectory that is very real.
I have used the public debt simply because nobody disputed that that was a bottom-line debt figure.
I would have preferred this hearing to be about the success the NTIA is having with implementing the program, but there'...
I think it can't be described as equitable or proportional.
What determines who gets funding? Is it need? Is it amount of people served?
Anything less than a complete termination probably is unacceptable.
Let me share this with you. You noted, Mr. Secretary, you noted in your testimony that Vice President Biden announced th...
Would you check those records? Would you check it out for the record and furnish it?
Maybe we can refrain from making it more bad than it is.
I am thinking that our President is going to have to lead on this issue.
This program has not been the promised downpayment on economic prosperity and I think it can hardly be described as gett...
I believe we should save the taxpayer from suffering from any further problems at the Department of Commerce and rescind...