Clay Higgins actually said...

"This committee is going to expect excellent response from the agencies responsible for spending the people's treasure on this perhaps the worst idea in the history of best practices in capital plannin..."

"I would suggest to my colleagues that today's hearing has made clear the extent to which our nation's research and development is targeted and exposed."

"I think that it has the potential to make things go more quickly with one caveat which is it would have to free the State up from all the compliance issues."

"We couldn't agree more that it is not going fast enough, and that is true in Houston and throughout the whole region."