"I believe, one of the President's best choices for Cabinet Secretary."
"I believe that this budget begins the process of addressing that very serious problem."
"I think that helped get us on our way and the President's way and Secretary Shinseki's way on a much better VA budget than we have had in years past."
"The testimony is intended to be all encompassing, principally so that the regulator has the authority should a private equity firm be deemed to be systemically important to have authority to ask for i..."
"You ought to do an inventory of how many reports everybody is going to have to do."
"If it was not for the money they got there, a lot of them would be in terrible shape."
"In Ohio, we have $2.7 billion worth of highway projects that are shovel-ready, but we only have $1 billion available in stimulus funds."
"I think unless you, on the national level, through OMB, or through other agencies, basically say to folks, look, get it on the street--"
"I have never seen such anxiety in this country as I do today. We need to restore people's faith in the future."
"Mr. Nabors, have you talked to OPM about that? Have you done an inventory of all the departments and what they are going to need?"
"Mr. Chairman, I am out of time, but I would like to suggest that maybe we ask this group of people here to start and come back to us maybe in a month or 2 months with a plan of how people are going to..."
"We have got a problem here."
"This is a big crisis, this is probably one of the biggest crises we have today in the Federal Government."
"I am planning on introducing legislation to provide additional scholarships to students in exchange for public service."
"Mr. Chairman, we may not even have to have a hearing. Maybe we could just have them in your office and have them come in and tell us what they are doing and then say, come back to us in 6 months and t..."
"We probably should have had this hearing 8 years ago."
"We are not producing enough veterinarians in the country, period."
"We owe it to the Americans we serve to respond quickly and forcefully to the housing crisis."
