Roy Blunt actually said...

"In the bill we did last year, Director McCarthy, I asked for a--I asked you all to work with the National Academy of Public Administrators to conduct an independent study to create a definition of com..."

"This is an important job. It is an important office."

"The reliance on mandatory spending to supplant discretionary funding contributes to exactly what is wrong with our Federal budget."

"I certainly would not think that would be the way we would want to follow our effort last year to increase research by $2 billion."