06/03/2009
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"I think we are going to try to take about 400 or 450 out of that so that we reduce by about 30, 35 percent the number of positions that require confirmation."
"Sometimes my colleagues and I--hopefully not me--will put a hold on someone's name in order to get some kind of leverage for an entirely unrelated item."
"I think it is ideological as opposed to looking at the facts."
"Yes, that is why I want to get involved. It is not rocket science, so I can probably deal with it."