"I have always found it kind of interesting that our committee, even when I was chair and even before that, we looked at the Arts and Humanities Councils, and we give them the same appropriation."
"If there is ever a time when that initiative needs to be restarted or it needs to be worked on, I would encourage you to do it now because it is now more necessary than ever before."
"Using the administration's own numbers, nondefense programs are increased by $105 billion, or 16 percent, while defense programs only go up by $12 billion, or not even 2 percent."
"She said that Yucca Mountain had been both a political and a scientific failure. She is half right. It was a political failure."
"I appreciate your being here today to shed as much light as you can on the DOE's budget request."
"Thank you for taking the time to be here and explain your priorities for us."
"I am jealous of the thinking that has gone in, in the State of Washington on hydropower."
"I just had to leave for a second from the hearing because we were doing a press conference on a bill that Senator Bennet and Representative Crow and I just introduced called the Outdoor Restoration Pa..."
"The Rural Water Program is vitally important, I am sure, all across the country, not just in Idaho."
"As a former State secretary, I know that State and locals know their communities much better than the Federal Government ever could. We have to have an effective partnership."
"I am not for closing the doors to the courthouse, but we have to have some action against serial litigators."