Joe Courtney actually said...

"This really should not be some child protection agency free zone where complaints can't be fielded and investigated."

"I could care less about the media. The real questions is just that the local school budgets, as Mr. O'Connell knows, are stretched thin."

"There is not question, as the witnesses have said, that local and state officials in the area of school closings make the final call, but your direction, I think, is really what they look to."

"It has to be accurate information. You know, if that delays the message a little bit I think it is better to delay the message and get it right, rather than to push it out and then have to rescind it,..."