"Waste or fraud in the spending of the $500 billion of stimulus funds will only further erode the American people's confidence in their government."
"The Recovery Act also creates several important oversight mechanisms that the Chairman and I worked hard to ensure were included."
"The Senate was determined to make sure that the final version of the bill had a quicker impact on the economy by having a faster spend-out rate than the House bill had."
"we have to make sure that we do what the President said we are going to do, which is that we are going to watch every dime."
"We remain determined to protect this critical spending from waste, fraud, and mismanagement."
"I think it is extremely unfortunate that the omnibus bill has not been revised to take into account the recently appropriated funds in the stimulus bill."
"I think there ought to be some flexibility to maybe shift some of the time frames for when the money is spent."
"It is essential to effectively achieving the objective of the President's March 4, 2009 memo to have the capacity and ability to develop, manage, and oversee acquisitions appropriately."
"the acquisition workforce... is the number-one problem, over and over again."
"I think you've brought forth a bill that will really make a difference."
"One of the reasons that we are seeing some success in Iraq is not just the addition of more troops, but rather a change in strategy that accompanied the addition of more troops."