"I support that completely, to use some of these TARP funds to incentivize the small and community banks to lend."
"Last year, the Committee asked for a plan to develop a satellite-based scatterometer to monitor surface specter winds."
"What would be the relative expense of procuring this data commercially as compared to under the current plan?"
"What, what--sorry, it is the Stanford in me coming out. But I was reading your written testimony, and plainly if you look at the map here you can see that the land is far more than 30 percent."
"if there is a good case to be made for why this advances those goals it really will need to be made very forcefully."
"You have a very tough job. And in many respects I think the job your predecessors had was easier because we had the vision, we did not have the resources, but we were content to suspend belief."
"Given the predictable demise of QuikSCAT and ongoing discussions with NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, I am collaborating on a new mission."
"I believe the key to addressing the concerns with the current patent system is to work to increase efficiency at the PTO and improve the quality of patents as well as get rid of the backlog."
"It sounds like in the beginning it would be more than fees because it will take you time to change the fees."
"The three categories I am interested in are do your estimates contemplate fee increases?"
"Is what you will be aiming for with a 15 percent increase and whatever fee increases... to arrive at a fee level that would make the Agency self-sustaining?"