"OK. Additional elements that need to be addressed in this memorandum of agreement that are unaddressed."
"Help me understand that part, especially the part about 'with the assistance of OMB.'"
"The issue about an interpretive rule and whether something is economically significant..."
"We appreciate you being here and doing the hard work. You all have done a lot of work behind the scenes to be able to get to this point, to be able to do this, and we do appreciate it."
"Which, by the way, I do not think you are getting any disagreement from us on that."
"This will have a court challenge and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars."
"We can help get the information out to the different committees."
"The problem with the National Disaster Recovery Framework is it may be a plan without authorities given to the agencies that are truly in charge of things like power or housing."
"We have to be able to find a way to either debate that and fix that or to be able to change your authorities."
"A big gain that we can have from this... is lessons learned and things that can change in the future."
"If FEMA engaged in it, they are going to get a response back in 30 to 45 days. It is going to be very rapid to be able to help them turn around a check."