"That is the issue. We have this structure now, if that is a goal, and I would concur that it is a great option for the goal, to say let's help people transition out of it, and are we accomplishing that?"
"as we have seen marriages collapse, especially among the poor, we have seen a greater need for government to engage."
"We were in the process--in fact, GSA was in the process of putting out stimulus dollars totaling $5.85 billion."
"This would not come to light unless your office would have started it."
"The President had just recently rebuked public companies who did conferences in Las Vegas that had also received TARP money."
"Let me just mention a couple things that are jarring on this to me."
"During the time of this conference, at that same month unemployment in the Nation was 9.6 percent."
"So to say all these previous conferences, like Oklahoma City and New Orleans and all this are the same, they are not."
"There seems to be no scientific evidence that there is an adverse environmental impact in this, only a preference that we want to protect 5,000 minnows."
"Can you give me some confidence EPA will not release any preliminary findings until they have been peer reviewed as required by the study?"
"How is EPA deciding how many fish is the appropriate number to be impinged on each site?"