"Just being able to communicate their work, their role, their concerns, their efforts to focus on safety."
"The only thing that is new in the world is the history we never learned or have forgotten."
"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 no..."
"We are up to about $72 billion worth of improper payments, mostly overpayments."
"What do we need to be doing here in the legislative side, in this hearing?"
"Well, I applaud those efforts and urge you to continue them."
"We have a lot of contractors hungry for work and anxious to bid."
"The OMB needs to provide additional guidance to help people determine the amount of jobs created and preserved."
"We have been going after and trying to recover money from Medicare, a lot of it fraud."
"As much help as there is for States to offset the draconian cuts, that States are still going to be in a big hole for the next 3 years."
"The importance of the Single Audit process is, I think, magnified, rather than minimized, by the Recovery Act's emphasis on accountability."