Eleanor Holmes Norton

There was a surge in spending, because the figures are in now on the surge in spending in the last campaign.

I wouldn't want to be in your position to look first at the words 'exclusively,' then 'primarily,' and then trying to figure it out.

I don't see targeting, even. I don't see confusion.

I want to congratulate these two civil servants for having the courage to come forward before this committee.

The reauthorized Voting Rights Act was passed in a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and signed by a Republican President. Then the House and Senate Republican and Democratic leadership led Members of Congress to the front steps of…

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The Republican Senator from Missouri, Chris Bond, inserted it into an SBA reauthorization.

By the time the Democrats took control of the Congress, its chair, Nydia Velazquez, was so disgusted with the program.

It seemed to bring together really some of the visions of one of my good friends, the late Jack Kemp.

Of something as serious as perjury--and a lawyer at that. I thank the gentlelady for coming to the floor so that these accusations--these wild and reckless accusations--against the Attorney General have not gone unanswered.

I think anyone who could understand that--by the way, I want to take exception to my good friend the ranking member who sees no redeeming value in line dancing.

The take-away from these episodes is one that you learn from your mother and father when you are spending someone else's money, spend it even more carefully than your own.

The worst year of spending apparently for the IRS, $15 million, was the year before the President even came into office.

Well you see suspicion is aroused whenever some sunny spot is picked.

Now this, no matter how you look at it, this $4 million, even if it wasn't this much as the $15 million is an excessive amount of money.

So you are going to have a partially done project. All of that money should be counted as wasted.

If anybody is interested in Government waste, this is one of the most, one of the greatest wastes one could even imagine

So one of the things you can do as you get more business, and can charge whatever you desire, is you can just go out and get more employees instead of, for example, considering, can we do this work with fewer employees, as for example…

Mr. Grimes, don't you see the problem? If you are sitting on a product that keeps going up, didn't you believe that at some point somebody was going to call the question on you?

Have Federal agencies given you more people who need background checks or are you testifying that deeper background checks are needed? The Federal workforce I don't think has been exponentially rising.

How do you control costs? There is no competition. How do you control costs, Mr. Grimes?

I generally support revolving funds, normally because they are cost savings.

I am always looking for science to rescue us from the last dilemma.

Mr. Chairman, the NRC got into this problem for the same reason that the SEC got into the same problem last Congress.