I am doing everything that we have to do to make sure that the day that I take office, we are prepared to engage immediately.
When the American people spoke last November, they were demanding change.
We will ban all earmarks in the recovery package.
We're going to have to stop talking about budget reform.
That's something that I'm committed to.
That's what the American people are looking for.
We are going to bring a long-overdue sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington.
I think what you're also going to see is a team that is committed to breaking with some of the past practices.
I'm being fully briefed and monitoring the situation on a day-to-day basis.
I'm concerned about this.
And I describe earmarks as the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review. So, what I'm sayi...