"I want to publicly reaffirm my support and confidence in your leadership."
"How are you going to know if the States are doing their job?"
"For me, it is an issue about making this country as safe as we possibly can, keeping illegal immigrants out and keeping drugs away from our kids and neighbors."
"Do you have the ability to do oversight in sovereign nations, to make sure the money does get to the ground once it leaves our hands?"
"Oversight of money is critically important."
"I just want to talk about contracting just for a second."
"I actually support jail time."
"A fair amount of this money is going into regions typically because unemployment rates are higher there than in other areas."
"But we do need aggressive oversight to make sure that these projects, with only rock solid merit, are getting the taxpayer money."
"Is there anything in the bill that would require moneys that go to an area where unemployment is high, to actually be spent on people who live in that area that do not have jobs?"
"If we are plugging money into doing important work, important infrastructure work--it is not to make work, it is work that needs to be done and should be done."