Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"Part of why we want this money to be used to avoid the disastrous layoffs of teachers, for instance, is that, to say the obvious, you want to protect the jobs."

"the question that we will always ask is if we are getting this money out as quickly as we can."

"Obviously, you will keep monitoring and let us know if you think that it is moving more slowly to State and local governments than it should or could."

"You are going to be able to do a lot of things and slice and dice the data any number of ways you want."