He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.

If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I will do my utmost to strengthen the Department's financial management and internal controls designed to prevent fraud.

If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken.

I have been an advocate for whistleblowers because I value candid, unfiltered information they provide to Congress.

It bothers me that giving Rich a 'get out of jail free' card happens, and that's especially offensive to me.

I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that.

I have no personal problem with a pardon, but that you expected a howl from the Southern District.

You have admitted to poor judgment in your handling of this case.

don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the sentences of people like those in the video that we just showed doing what I said that they were doing, that the Justice…

Oversight helps make Government more transparent. The taxpayers have a right to know whether the taxpayers' money is being appropriately spent.

I think the False Claims Act... has been a very, very important tool for us to root out fraudulent use of taxpayers' money.

no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulation or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for 2 years.

I am so pleased to see that one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominations is an Iowan, and I want to personally congratulate you.

He has been around agriculture in the family farm, as mayor of a small town, as a State senator, and as Governor of Iowa.

I would like to have you take a look at a letter that I sent to the Department NRCS early in December.

Many of us in the Senate have worked hard in years to pass legislation to help restore competition in livestock markets.

I think you spoke to this in your opening statement, so that is a pretty strong statement you made.

The only thing whistleblowers are guilty of is committing truth.

For a long time on this issue, I have worked with my colleagues Senator Feingold, Senator Harkin, and others.

The issue of racial integration is the most pressing issue facing fair housing enforcers.

I think the president is doing this now. It's catch up time, because he didn't veto very many spending bills during the years that the Republicans controlled Congress.

There was no excuse for it in the first place. Not having a procedure in place for the massive expenditures of money that was spent.

One of my concerns is that the FDA has a relationship with drug companies that is far too cozy. That's exactly the opposite of what it should be. The health and safety of the public must be FDA's first and only concern.

Our courts are called upon to decide important matters, matters that often have great public impact. The attitude and views that a person brings to the bench make a difference in how they reach those decisions. So the Senate is right to…

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