"As this Subcommittee made clear to the VA in its invitation to this hearing, we are examining the proposed clinic in Savannah as a case study for the rest of the country."
"We have evidence of similar dubious practices taking place at other locations, and our intent is to have the VA fix the problems and conduct necessary oversight at all of its construction sites."
"I would also like to remind everyone that this is a budget hearing on OSM, and their use of taxpayer money to, amongst other things, unnecessarily rewrite a rule to forward a political agenda, regardl..."
"I want to thank the panel for being here today, as well."
"The preferred rule of OSM would cut down on underground coal mining by as much as 50 percent, and cost tens of thousands of direct and indirect jobs, if it goes forward."
"So that's taxpayer dollars down the drain?"
"I want to thank the panel for being here today, and you are now excused."
"I too hope that we could get to that point, and I hope that we can move forward together to solve these problems and others."
"I want to commend you and the chairman of the Full Committee, Mr. Hastings, for digging deep for the answers to this important issue."
"I appreciate, first of all, my colleague from South Carolina for offering H.R. 3783, the Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012."
"Last year, PortMiami generated over $18 billion, direct and indirect, to the economy of our community."