I would like to join you in the effort to provide more support for community colleges that you and Senator Hagan were discussing earlier.
I want to join Mr. Chairman in thanking you for your profoundly important and historic work on this topic.
If the education is substandard, if it fails to meet minimum quality criteria, it shouldn't be in business.
What strikes me as different here is that we are dealing with hopes and dreams, someone is trying to better himself and increase opportunity...
So I hear a lot of talk from my Republican friends and from my conservative friends about how the government should run more like a business...
What we're asking here today is for that to be taken away from the Federal Government.
I think we've gone too far here, I think, in violating House rules, in violating basic concepts of fairness.
I hope in the future that, though committee is certainly going to be used occasionally to advance the political imperatives of the majority ...
Just to clarify, the individual decisions about how bids are structured is up to individual agencies; is that correct?
You said in your testimony that you are not here out of an anti-union bias, that this isn't about union; this is about the best use of taxpa...
I think we need to tone down the level of rhetoric here when we're talking about an Executive order that simply asks individual agencies to ...
In other words, those are efficiencies, elimination of waste, duplication. So I appreciate that.
I am convinced that if we could eliminate redundancy, duplication, and overlap, that we can literally save billions of dollars.
Thanks, Senator Collins. I agree with you.
I do not want to take really any more time on it, but one part is, if the debt ceiling is not increased, which I think most people think it ...
But really, we are all accountable to the taxpayers, to say the obvious, and it is going to take a couple of big things, but a lot of small ...
For that unity of purpose, shouldn't there be a central prosecuting authority?
I always resist the business/government analogies because they are not quite perfect because government is held to other standards than busi...
