"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."
"The danger of a jobless recovery remains all too real."
"The agencies are going to be actively involved in looking at that data along with their State recipient counterparts."
"It is too early to say. There are obviously some glimmerings of hope about some movement in the right direction in the economy."
"we appropriated, believe it or not, $250 million over the 2 years for the hiring of additional inspectors and investigators"
"not to spend it so quickly that it is wasted or it is subject to fraudulent uses"
"I would look forward to helping in any way I can."
"The government set up a Web site called Recovery.gov, and as of last Thursday, when I held my second hearing on this in Washington, the Web site had received over 300 million hits since about the midd..."
"Delightedly, the law with your help and the help of your colleagues, Senator Lieberman, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), was recently reauthorized."
"Incidentally, I noticed that Congressman Ed Towns, who chairs our partner committee in the House, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is proposing legislation to separately fund State an..."