"Isn't it true that the function of the Library of Congress to enhance and make available for education and informational purposes to the United States and ultimately the world, that is a mandate that the Librarian has?"
"In a digital age, if we are going to protect copyright and we are going to make, if you will, works available to the public, both of those have to change."
"I would hope that the unredacted versions of all this would be made available to the GAO."
"So just to wrap up, budget is always a problem, but you are not even beginning to be positioned to handle well the absorption, the cataloging, the referencing and the searching of the media being prod..."
"We are here today because you represent the most arcane part of government in many ways."
"Boy, I'll tell you, hearings like this let us know how long it takes to do anything here on Capitol Hill."
"Let's cut to the chase. I have with me three witnesses. Two, very clearly, are not part of transparency in government."
"We pay a huge premium for CIOs, Senior Executive Service. We, the Congress, have authorized special high pay, a quarter of a million dollars and more, to get certain people with special expertise."
"There is no one in Congress that I have more personal respect for than Bobby Scott."
"The system as it is today is an incredibly easily gamed system."
"But right now New York and perhaps others owe the American people money from excess payments, and they're not being treated the way private sector is being treated."