"He has good judgment and unquestioned integrity, and I think that really sums it up."
"the merit principles, which basically say we should hire people who can do the job because they have the skills to do the job and we evaluate them by how well they do that job and nothing else."
"the Federal Government does have to treat like employees similarly."
"Let me thank you, Director Mueller, for your service and thank you for being here today."
"There are three major provisions that will sunset during 2009 that will need to be taken up by Congress."
"I think most of us believe these tools are extremely important, and we want to make sure that you have the tools that you need."
"I would just stress I would hope that we will have the opportunity to return to the issues of the PATRIOT Act far in advance of the deadline for the end of this year where we have to act."
"I think the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a good first start."
"There is no question that our national transportation system is in dire need of repairs and investments."
"It has been estimated that we spend 4.2 billion hours a year stuck in traffic."
"I think these are important points and need to be part of the policies that we look forward to in our next effort on reauthorization."
"Let's take a look at the overall problems that we have in America in dealing with quality of life and our commitment to our environment."