"It is the view in the White House that the Department of Homeland Security will continue to play an absolutely essential role in the protection of America's cyber infrastructure."
"It is hard for cyber security to work without electricity."
"If you are confirmed, you will be in charge of the cyber security effort for the Department of Homeland Security."
"But there was no reference to the presidential election in that briefing that you received?"
"If confirmed, you are going to be in a truly critical position for our homeland security."
"These pernicious trends must be reversed."
"So the key question I pose this morning is why, since we have a 23 percent contracting goal, are only 10.3 percent of the stimulus dollars so far been awarded to small businesses?"
"I hope to learn today what practices the DOT is using to assist small business contractors."
"I have long been dismayed by the myriad ways that government agencies have repeatedly time and again egregiously failed to meet its statutory goal of awarding the 23 percent of all contracting dollars..."
"The nomination of Robert M. Groves to be Director of the Census at the Department of Commerce comes at a critical time for the Census Bureau."
"We happen to have the facts on our side. We also happen to have justice on our side."