"I am so grateful to be the newest member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."
"These huge pay packages are offensive during these difficult times and Americans are angry about it."
"I know that you made some major exceptions to pay cuts for three senior AIG executives who had signed contracts for multi-million dollars bonuses prior to your appointment."
"I certainly would agree that after the Lehman and AIG experiences there is little doubt that we need a third option that--between the choices of bankruptcy and bailout for non-bank financial firms and..."
"Well, I am very pleased to join this Committee and to have this as my first Committee hearing, so thank you very much."
"I was so happy to hear of the success of California's direct certification program, this 37 percent increase in student enrollment in the school lunch program."
"The big leap forward will occur when you all permit California and the rest of the nation to use the data that is in the Medicaid database."
"I sponsored a bill to increase food stamp eligibility by eliminating the fingerprinting requirement."
"I am assuming that you would want more teachers with national board certification to be at the high-needs schools?"
"there are many remedies that districts could pursue and some are practiced in a few districts but local politics serve as a formidable barrier in those."
"if that leverage could be used toward equalizing spending in districts with the local and state money, then some of these remedies would start to surface."