There are some bad habits we have in Congress, and that is a tendency to be very parochial when it comes to you buying things.

I just want to know whose shoulder I need to look over, because I'd like to pay attention to that.

I think that the comment you made, Director Blair, about the recognition in our country that it's not the Muslim faith that's the problem, it's terrorists who inappropriately mask their terror in a religious connotation.

All the State governments are offering early retirement to experienced auditors because of their budget crunches.

we cannot abandon some of the basics of the Single Audit, primarily the financial statement audit, because everybody depends on that for their bond ratings.

I think that might be something we want to look at.

I think a great photograph that should be on Recovery.gov would maybe be a photograph of the Chairman and Ranking Member of this Committee as it relates to the oversight capacity they have.

Yes. And speaking of English, we have been spending a lot of time on Recovery.gov in my office and the weekly updates, kind of feel like internal use project plans.

I think another idea I would give you is that I discovered that the best thing I did when I was an auditor was I hired a journalist to begin writing the summaries for audits.

I mean, we have the St. Louis Urban League in St. Louis that typically gets a million a year. They are getting $16 million.

That is way too late.