John Tierney

We knew when you brought Vito Giacalone on board that you were really focusing like a laser beam.

I understand with respect to our national security concerns and homeland protection, being a part of that, that the government systems, we have the responsibility, we have to take care of it and move on from that.

If you don't do a good job of that, I suspect people aren't going to buy your product or utilize your services.

But there was never a 100 percent secure train either, but at some point liability went to the locomotive company because technology had advanced to the point where they were the ones to be held responsible for anything.

If it is breached, let's say there aren't any government workers in that area?

there is a question as to what was the real motivation behind some of these revisions

if the revisions were designed to produce greater accountability and transparency, they were ill-thought-out and clearly failed in doing so.

I am moved nearly to tears by the great concern for the labor rank-and-file from my Republican colleagues and from some of the witnesses down there.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich was the first person to suggest the use of the act as a means to weaken unions.

I also think that sometimes we have cut beyond those areas and into the bone.

I think everybody is interested in eliminating waste, fraud and abuse and duplication.

$800 billion over 10 years.

the courage to take on a larger issue of making sure that people pay their fair share.

$700 billion in tax expenditures to corporations every year.

the lowest effective tax corporate rate of all the OECD countries on average.

Google paid 2.4 percent effective tax rate last year.

GE and Boeing paid no taxes at all in the last several years.

I think I am still an advocate and always have been of a clamp down process on this.

If a bankruptcy judge had the authority to do that, it would never get to that point.

I oppose this amendment for some very good reasons on that. Let me explain what the medical loss ratio is. That is what the people in these private insurance companies call providing health care for the premium dollar you provide. For…

I particularly had the pleasure of working with you on authoring the Green Jobs Act and enacting that, as well.

I am struck by the recklessness of an effort to cut $3 billion out of our job-training program.

I think we're a little perplexed over here. There's nobody on this side of the aisle that doesn't feel regulations ought to be reviewed. I don't think there's anybody on the other side that feels that way, and I think that everybody…

I mean, President Eisenhower appointed William Brennan to the bench, Earl Warren to the bench, Potter Stewart to the bench by recess appointments.

I can't help but think that Mr. King was mentioning he thought that the Board was taking a lot of its time up with things it probably shouldn't be considering.