"I very much appreciate that. I'm chairing an Intelligence Committee hearing, and it's of some importance, and so, I doubly appreciate this courtesy."
"May I be excused?"
"We don't pretend to know all the answers. These seem to us to be the common sense answers."
"I think the best way to approach this, really, is to listen to the NTSB."
"All Californians as well as all Americans should feel confident that their communities are safe and that the State and Federal pipeline safety regulators are doing what is necessary to protect our cit..."
"I think it's also clear today that the CIA General Counsel's office made some mistakes, costly mistakes, by relying on questionable legal opinions from the Department of Justice."
"We must do everything we can to protect this funding, which is essential to lifesaving research innovations."
"On September 9, at 6:11 p.m., a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded."
"the use of contractors needs to continue to decrease substantially, and I intend to keep pushing on this point until contractors are not used for any inherently governmental purpose."
"We need to know where, from an intelligence perspective, contractors should serve a vital use, and where they do not."
"It is a great pleasure for me to be here this morning to express my strong support for Dr. Janet Yellen."