"Mr. Chairman, with your permission, can I go ahead and ask my two or three questions and then----"
"Competition is the merger-review element."
"This committee, over the years, has spent countless hours debating that."
"I just want to be sure that's on your agenda as you're thinking about that."
"I think this is a big mistake for these cooperatives."
"Mr. O'Brien, on the rural housing rental assistance, what are you doing with that under the current budget?"
"When people travel, the foreign travelers stay longer than domestic travelers. They spend more, and when they leave, they almost always like us a whole lot better than they did when they came."
"This is a problem that many members of the Senate want to work with you to help solve."
"I think that this important Department needs somebody who is confirmed, and in charge, and ready to take hold."
"Well, what about the Healthy Watershed Initiatives in the Mississippi River?"
"Putting all the eggs in a renewable basket I believe is a mistake."