"To put this number in perspective, Medicaid spending on New York's developmental centers alone exceeded the entire Medicaid budgets of 14 States."
"Today's hearing highlights another brazen example of Government failure."
"That sounds wonderful."
"I mean, this is deceiving and fleecing of the American taxpayer."
"I think these are real glaring issues that we ought to continue to pay attention to."
"Should Congress have a legislative and oversight role in the new authorities laid out by the Chu memorandum? And how so?"
"I guess they don't realize that whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over."
"I believe that not all the pieces were put into place in a timely fashion to be able to start the project."
"there is a limited budget that we can work by, and this is a way that you actually have an increased revenue stream to utilize a natural resource properly."
"So it is not just about bark beetles, it is about cankers and blights."
"Isn't that part of the Forest Service's problem, their ineptness with the bureaucracy?"