"Oversight helps make Government more transparent. The taxpayers have a right to know whether the taxpayers' money is being appropriately spent."
"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 ..."
"I wish a President of the United States, previous and this one coming up, would have done that."
"If DOD's books cannot be audited, then the defense finance and accounting system is disjointed and broken."
"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 think the False Claims Act... has been a very, very important tool for us to root out fraudulent use of taxpayers' money."
"The only thing whistleblowers are guilty of is committing truth."
"Many of us in the Senate have worked hard in years to pass legislation to help restore competition in livestock markets."
"I would like to have you take a look at a letter that I sent to the Department NRCS early in December."
"I think you spoke to this in your opening statement, so that is a pretty strong statement you made."
"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."