"If you wait until the train wreck to come together for the first time, you are seldom going to be able to forge the necessary consensus."
"civil rights is indeed this joint venture among Federal, State, and local partners."
"I want to express my appreciation to you for holding this hearing on this occasion, on the 1-year anniversary to the Health Care Reform Law."
"I have strongly opposed any measures to cut Social Security."
"I think those suggestions or recommendations are excellent as a starting point, and certainly we may want to consider going beyond them based on what we've heard and what we may find out."
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"these kinds of opportunities for students who otherwise wouldn't have access to college education is critically important."
"preserving and enhancing the use of those Federal dollars is one of the main reasons we are here today."
"the extent of the harm and of the wrongdoing and abuse is the reason that we are here today."
"I am not satisfied that it is sufficiently strong so far to provide credibility and trust on the part of policymakers and, equally important, the awarders of funds, Federal funds, taxpayer moneys that..."
"I think that you are sensing a strong sense of disquiet, if not dissatisfaction, maybe even stronger emotion of skepticism, about whether the oversight and scrutiny here has been sufficient to elimina..."
"I want to say about this process that I think that you are entitled to an up-or-down vote by the U.S. Senate."