John Tierney

why are we paying 20 percent on top of that? And how do we explain that to the taxpayers?

I might suggest that would be a great hearing for us to have.

Shame on us. Shame on us, because there is an option: You tell Mr. Karzai that everything stops unless he stops this sort of thing.

this is going to be a huge determinative what happens going forward.

you see the President's frustration. When he nominates people, they end up having to withdraw because they can't get action.

When you have a minority party and minority leadership that says that their sole goal in life is to make sure that this sitting President doesn't win a second term, I think that that is the indication of why things aren't getting done in…

I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for yielding, as well as for taking the time to help manage this bill and for being an original cosponsor; and I thank my colleague from Pennsylvania, as well, for cosponsoring this bill and for his…

You know, we have real issues with a lot of things that are happening over there in terms of insight into contracts.

Let's fill these positions so that we can move forward and keep this Country safe and keep our economy moving on that basis.

letting the interest rates go from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent moves us in the wrong direction.

I think we can keep admiring the problem or do something about it, so I have been very public--I think particularly in disadvantaged communities we should pay math and science teachers more money.

Pell Grants are a huge part of the solution, not a part of the problem.

So your office is helping and helping us grapple with the innovation idea, the idea of being flexible on that, the partnershipping in the sectors.

I wish Ms. Foxx was still here because my information is some 162,458 jobs, if you want to be exact, adults received training services, which I think is a pretty incredible number.

It does no good to provide training to jobs that don't exist.

By statute, the mission of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage-earners in the United States.

Congressman Tierney and Congressman Hinojosa and I introduced a bill yesterday to modernize the workforce investment programs.

If we are going to have programs where everybody agrees that we need to reduce hunger and that we agree that fraud can't be allowed, if we are going to have the public support behind it, then I think this is a good thing for this Committee…

When I hear the numbers of 4 percent down to as low as 1 percent on fraud, but 20 percent cut in the budget, I understand why they are looking that way.

The topic of stolen valor is timely and important.

I want to thank you for that, but I don't think that we should burden you with the notion that you are setting policy on this issue.

The Department of Defense, for all the good it does for us on our national security, is the one agency that cannot pass an audit.

The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 makes it a crime to falsely represent oneself as a service award recipient.

I think that is a case by case.

I think in this hearing we want to make sure that individual union members are not being disadvantaged inappropriately, that their rights are being protected.