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Did the EPA just admit that their estimates for mercury were 1,000 times overstated? And is that the basis of your net analysis?

One thing that amazes me is, as I traveled around Wisconsin, not only was this out-of-control spending a primary issue because people understood the fact that we are bankrupting this country, that threat created a high level of uncertainty…

We want you to be restrained. We want Congress to have a say in this.

We have gone way overboard in allowing the President and the Executive Branch to have way too much power.

We are spending over $1.5 trillion this year that we do not have, and certainly in business, if you want to control a department, you stop feeding the best.

Can you address the EPA regulation on coal-fired generation plans? Because that is going to be huge.

To pick up on Senator Paul's comment that this is a bipartisan problem, I realize this is not a perfect surrogate for the size of the Federal bureaucracy, but at the end of President Franklin Roosevelt's terms, we had 86,000 pages in the…

Mr. President, it is my honor to represent the good people of Wisconsin in the Senate. It is an awesome responsibility--a responsibility I take very seriously. Today it is my distinct privilege to address this historic body for the first…

I am extraordinarily concerned about inadequate funding request for ongoing congressionally authorized rural water projects.

this system simply isn't working. It is inadequate. It is broken, needs to be fixed.

We need to do all we can to make sure that these new medical products are getting to the market quickly as well as safely.

However, the drive toward getting new technologies to market should not be done at the risk of patient safety.

When you have 20 different agencies involved, again, you are spanning--can you just name the top five or six agencies that really have accomplished objectives here or actually have some sort of focused effort?

I mean, if they have not even in 7 years defined what it is they are going to teach--or am I misinterpreting that?

So again, these are academic studies, not really commissioned by the GAO, but you are just searching the academic literature in terms of people conducting studies on financial literacy.