I used to be a politician, but now I am a statesman.

The extra $300,000 stays in the State, can be used for other DelDOT projects.

we are going to be very aggressive about seeing that gets prosecuted, as aggressive as we can possibly be if the facts support those kinds of things.

If that goes well, we hope to be able to do the same kind of thing in Medicaid.

To the extent that we can get the money back, we need to do that.

I think maybe in each of those instances, certainly in IRS, the Department of Treasury, you have a Commissioner serving a 5-year term and the head of the Department is a political appointee who may not be there for 5 years.

the Secretary of Commerce wasn't very mindful of those responsibilities, his oversight responsibilities in terms of providing directional leadership for the Bureau of the Census.

Well, it sounds to me like part of what you all have said, a number of you said, one, make sure that--the key here is to try to reduce the number of people that aren't responding.

I think your response was, well, right now, let us just do what we said we were going to do and do that well.

All right. The Administration's fiscal year 2010 budget doesn't propose increasing recruitment and hiring of Census takers for non-response follow-up as Congress envisioned in approving extra funds for the Census in the stimulus package.

We need a first-rate Director of the Census Bureau and we need him or her right now.