John Tierney

I can't underscore enough the importance of oversight of programs that just don't seem to measure up to our expectations even though we continue to throw money at them.

So they apparently think if you're getting half to two-thirds of the expected life span of an engine is something that they ought to reward with an additional contract.

What does the Department of Defense and Marine Corps need to do to get this program back on track?

As my mother used to say, if everybody jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you?

I'd very much appreciate if you do that; whether somebody's being held responsible for this.

You can talk faster than I can, General, but I'll slow you down a little bit.

Mr. Tierney. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Sullivan, according to your report, this V-22 is still having problems with unreliability on component parts?

The fundamental right to be entertained.

Some charter schools succeed. Some don't. Some public schools work. Some don't.

You sort of took a bypass on the system and said, 'We will set up a parallel system.'

Congress could decide to split the baby on that and change the interest rate, put some more into Pell, but also give that student borrower more of an advantage than they currently have.

I am glad this is all so crystal clear. Earlier we talked and we heard some of our colleagues talk earlier about all the wonders of competition on that.

The President would have to sign the bill.

We have one pool of money, Mr. Shireman, I guess we have one pool of money, and if it were private companies... they wouldn't be getting subsidies and they wouldn't be getting guarantees.

So just one final thing on that point that my colleague raised a second, we right now are looking at a 6.8 percent rate.

It seems to me that, you know, there really isn't any pure competition in this at all.

I want to congratulate you and the president on focusing on the cost of higher education.

It continues to amaze me how people can continue to say that this is a legislative mandate.

I hope our witnesses can give us insight into the current response to the H1N1 epidemic and help us assess where we have succeeded and where we have failed.

I, along with 19 of my colleagues, sent a letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano demanding immediate revocation of the prohibition on masks.

Since our borders provide an opportunity to slow the spread of H1N1, we must ensure the health of our first-line defense: the Border Patrol agents, Transportation Safety Administration officials, and other law enforcement and health care…

Couldn't we have kept $185 billion in the Treasury and just gone right to that by having a bankruptcy proceeding at the very outset of this?

I think it is our business judgment that the plan that's been put forth offers up a very credible, very rational way for the U.S. taxpayer to get its money back.

About November 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York established Maiden Lane 3, a financing agency.

I asked him whether or not he believed that AIG should have been allowed to go bankrupt, or whether they should have been bailed out.