Joe Lieberman

I would look forward to helping in any way I can.

This transparency that you will find on the Federal Web site and now on the State Web site is important for many reasons

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 middle of February when the Act was signed.

Delightedly, the law with your help and the help of your colleagues, Senator Lieberman, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), was recently reauthorized.

Yes, I think you are onto something, Senator Tester.

We were really impressed, surprised, by the usage, the number of hits on the Recovery.gov Web site.

That is because we are facing an economic challenge the likes of which we have never faced before.

The Recovery Act itself and the President are very set on this being as transparent and accountable a program as we have ever had in the Federal Government.

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.

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 check is in the mail

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.

The main goal of the stimulus package was to get money out into the economy quickly to stop the slide down of our economy

The unemployment level now is above what many economists predicted when we passed the stimulus in February.

This is really too critical, too big, and as I said at the beginning, it is too big for us to let it fail.

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 think it would be a perfect focus at the outset to take some of the contracts issued pursuant to the stimulus.

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 falling so fast and not driving our…

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

They know they need it. But they are worried about whether we are going to spend it effectively.

The usage is really miraculous or stunning.