"As inconvenient as it might seem, I mean, for years and years and years, we relied on paper ballots."
"This is not a political issue. This is--it is, in my opinion, a public emergency and to bring the politics into it, I think, is inappropriate."
"I'm not satisfied with a matter of months. I want to know why you can't produce an audit."
"I really want to do what we can to improve the opportunities for people in rural areas, particularly in giving people access to healthcare."
"I'd like to believe that making our regulations effective, yet less burdensome, would be and should be a worthy bipartisan objective."
"The objective here is not just about saving the economy money, it's bringing predictability, it's sensible regulation."
"It's about getting the right regulations in place and protecting the taxpayer in terms of funds."
"Some of the feedback I've gotten from private sectors that they're dealing with obsolete regulations, they're dealing with duplications, and in some cases, contradictions."
"What they find problematic is the lack of clarity in some cases."
"There is a mounting frustration that we identify problems and they don't get addressed."
"I think it is extremely important that when the GAO or the OIG make recommendations... Federal departments act on them."