We will probably submit written questions, and if you can take a look at them and send us some replies on a timely basis, it would help us to do our work.

the Budget Committee deals in hallucinations, and the Appropriations Committee deals in facts.

We deeply appreciate the subcommittee's willingness to champion the needs of the judiciary in terms of the real estate infrastructure necessary to conduct the work of the courts and administer justice.

In fiscal year 2008 alone, small businesses were awarded over $1 billion in GSA contracts.

Capital construction projects led by GSA are important investments, not only for the Government, but also for the communities.

I recently was invited to tour what was formerly known as Sears Tower in Chicago.

And their plans involve about a $300 million investment in making this 35-year-old building energy efficient.

AACN respectfully requests that the Capitation Grants program outlined in the Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2009, (S. 497), which was introduced by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), be included in this section of the bill.

Capitation Grant Programs have had historical success and will address the most pressing needs of our nursing schools.

You've got to do something about our corrections system. If you set out to design a system, you would never come up with what we have today.

It's time for an honest appraisal and I think Senator Webb's proposal for a Presidential look at this issue is long overdue.

Shouldn't we be talking about making credit available to the poor people who are lured into these payday loans and title loans?

if these projects are not funded in fiscal year 2010, we are concerned that all projects in 2010 and subsequent years will be delayed at least another year-seriously impacting the judicial process where courthouses are already out of…

I don't know how we can build a strong American economy if our homes are losing value and we see our neighbors facing foreclosure as we find across this country.

The record will remain open, Mr. Commissioner, until Wednesday, June 17, for subcommittee members to submit statements and questions to be submitted to you for consideration.

I have brought before the Senate, twice now unsuccessfully, an attempt to change the bankruptcy code so that we can create more incentives for renegotiating mortgages to avoid foreclosure.

We are going to allow you to leave, of course, and go about your business of saving the American economy, or lunch.

I have asked this question of your predecessor; in perhaps a little different form, and still remain skeptical that the voluntary approach to mortgage renegotiation is going to save us from this crisis.

What about answering the phone at the IRS? You reduced your performance goal from providing telephone assistance from 82 percent last year to 77 percent this year.

I sense that this was the catalyst that led us into this recession.

we recently enacted or passed in the Senate an historic credit card reform bill, which I commend my colleague, Senator Dodd

I think every Member of Congress should be required to do their own tax return.

There are lots of scams like that out there.

I have co-sponsored legislation to require companies operating as refund loan facilitators that offer loans to register with the Federal Government.

I have to tell you, after following it for years, it has been a source of frustration of how many bad starts we've had different with different agencies, trying to bring modern technology.