"We need to fix this. We need to restore the process to what it once was, and I believe this is an opportunity to do this."
"The Federal Agency Customer Experience (FACE) Act that Senator McCaskill and I have worked on has passed through the Senate already."
"I have yet to talk to a single person in the nomination process, for any task, that says, 'This is such a pleasant process.'"
"If there is some legislative barrier there that does not allow the two of them to cooperate, we just need to know so we can get it fixed."
"There are a couple of bills that are in the process of moving through right now."
"So what Senator Heitkamp is saying is when you get stuck in some process, release the redheads on them."
"I think that is a problem, that we cannot supervise what we cannot see, and they cannot lead what they cannot see."
"We have to make real progress on this and it has been a great frustration."
"Now that does not seem like a radical concept to me, but for years I have worked with Census."
"If the economy starts to get healthy again, then you have more people paying taxes and it goes up."
"It's not a matter of their taxes actually going up, it's a matter if they didn't actually take in the subsidies and so they count that in the strange way as actually removing taxes."