"Why does FBI have one process supervising investigations; ATF has a very, very different process on that?"
"They had too few people, they were trying to take on this massive task."
"Right. And when senior leadership, they do not inform the attorney general when Brian Terry is murdered, that there is a federal nexus to this as well in this ongoing investigation, again, that seems ..."
"we are going to spend $8.3 billion on something we are calling a demonstration, but it is very unlikely it is going to produce any results that will help us as a demonstration at all."
"Currently we are evaluating, we have an $8.3 billion demonstration program that we are pouring the majority of the money into this year."
"But we are not evaluating criteria on change, because it is from previous data."
"So how do we evaluate the effectiveness of this demonstration toward data they don't even know what they are directing toward?"
"So basically you are saying that the Secretary has broad authority, no one has done this ever before..."
"This conversation about red tape is really a big deal."
"The increased use of guidance documents, rather than actually doing formal rulemaking..."
"A million and a half dollars cheaper to do a contract tower. Right now we don't know on safety issue."
"I think one of the things I would like to get out of the hearing today is impact and feedback from the Panel about how overregulation from Washington is affecting, not only the oil and gas industry, b..."