Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"Most of the States have been under fiscal stress and they have cut back, some significantly, in the amount of oversight activities."

"I do want to say how pleased I am that the Acting Comptroller General, Mr. Dodaro, is today going to release before this Committee his first bi-monthly report on State and local spending under the Sti..."

"We reacted in this emergency with an unprecedented spending program and a pressure to spend it quickly."

"I always feel the best thing government can do is to try to help people get and hold good jobs to provide for themselves."