"Double-counting types of situations, because the one you were describing, an argument could be made, well, did that second job then kill 50 jobs."
"My concern about having two different methods of measuring job creation or the number of jobs saved is that it could serve to undermine the public's confidence in the credibility of the numbers."
"If recovery is to be successful in cities and towns, the first most important thing we need to do is help educate our local leaders."
"The Administration has estimated that more than 3 million jobs will either be saved or created by this Act."
"I believe it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that does not happen."
"It is going to be a challenge. I will not try to softball that one."
"Do you support legislation that would allow for the rehiring of annuitants without their incurring a financial penalty?"
"I am fearful that a lot of people will fall for that scam because--and what I think was an error in policy--we did do these one-time checks a year or so ago of $300 or $600 to taxpayers."
"I would add, it did not reconcile the funding in that Act with the funding that we had just approved."
"if you take $787 billion, even if it is a 1 percent loss, you are talking about a huge amount of money"
"Our vision in authorizing such a core of experienced contracting officials applies exactly to this kind of situation."