"I think you can expect Congress to get back in and mandate or speak more clearly in some areas of this law."
"Mentoring for teachers."
"the main goal of the stimulus package was to get money out into the economy quickly to stop the slide down of our economy"
"No."
"The unemployment level now is above what many economists predicted when we passed the stimulus in February."
"So on that chart, what jumps out at me, certainly, and I presume would at others, is that a relatively small proportion of that money is going to be spent in this fiscal year."
"the overall result of almost $800 million in Federal funding is unreservedly positive."
"I mean, it is hard to imagine that putting this much money out into the economy would not help some."
"The whole reason for the Recovery Act was to create or save jobs."
"I cannot think of a better preparation for this job that he had than to be a State Senator."
"I appreciate it, because obviously--and, of course, we will see some of this from the macro economic data, but we hope that the tax cuts will encourage people to spend, because consumption has been fa..."