"it is Congress's responsibility to provide support for the much harder job of reforming a failing public school system."
"I look forward to working with you and members of your staff to try and figure out ways to leverage as many dollars as possible."
"I want to extend a special welcome to the nominees and your families that are here."
"I actually look forward to working with my colleague, Sandy, here because it is going to be together that we work out the final financing to allow permanent supportive housing to go forward."
"I look forward to working with you to help increase access to mainstream financial institutions."
"I am pleased that the Department is requesting an increase of $60 million for Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants."
"I am a strong advocate for greater protection of personal privacy by the government"
"Thank you very much, Senator Voinovich."
"Thank you very much, Senator Burris."
"together we can deal with the challenges that we have ahead of us; I look forward to that."
"All of us would agree it is critically important."