"If the President follows through on the denial of sole source contracts, is the Pentagon prepared to hire the extra personnel required?"
"President Obama has made many comments about the creation of jobs."
"How can such a delay be justified given the fleet's importance to our nation's security?"
"I think we are going down the road of looking at a very comprehensive regulator for all our financial system."
"The KC-X will be a game changer. Its value as a tanker will be tremendous."
"Let us get out of their way and not say, 'The only way you get funding is if you use our contractor who may be coming from Texas or somewhere.'"
"I would like to ask Mr. Skinner, you know, first, I want to amen everything you said about letting the dust settle and roots grow into the ground with FEMA."
"So you have a Federal Emergency Management Agency, but you don't really want to spend the money to make it what it needs to be?"
"It is also changing culture in the organization."
"I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how we can continue to improve communications and coordination between FEMA regions and state and local emergency response organizations."
"Now, of course, FEMA still has work to do."
"I strongly feel, while more work remains to be done, FEMA has made significant progress over the last 2 years."
"I know that this is not always convenient, and you put a lot of time, energy into these opening statements and preparing for these questions."
"We have a constitutional right in America to keep and bear arms, and we are not changing our Constitution."
"Isn't one of the best ways we can help Mexico is to identify through intelligence, through task forces, and that sort of thing, and target these organizations that are collecting the money in the Unit..."
"I am proud of Mexico and that they are beginning to confront this systemic problem. It threatens the integrity of the entire Mexican Government."
"I believe the best thing we can do is to aggressively prosecute and eliminate the cartel groups that are in the United States selling the drugs."
"We have got a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and Mexico does not."
