Legal Services Corporation is not providing any lawyers on behalf of drivers, cooks, bottle watchers for Osama bin Laden under any circumstances, right?

No arrests in the United States of America are being handled any differently for suspected terrorists since 9/11 up until this moment; is that correct?

Have there been incidences where those trials were taking place in which Americans have been harmed or have been under some threat?

We don't want them back Director, don't send them here.

We basically as best as I can tell, I mean there have been some tweaks here and there, but basically our prison system is pretty much the way it has been.

I just thought in the United States of America that we would not be in a position where we would be fearful of taking someone who had harmed American citizens and of putting him before the bar of justice.

I wrote to you about this whole mortgage fraud area over, I think, 2 years ago and about the fact that these numbers of cases are, well, quite close to 3,000 now, up from, I think you testified in your written testimony, 400.

the real secret here is that the vast majority of them are going to come back to our communities.

I think that you know, given the work of this Committee and the leadership of our Chairman, that we are very interested in trying to make sure that Legal Services can continue and improve to close this justice gap.

I want to go through a couple of things.

Let me thank my colleague for yielding me this time. If we roll the tape back, I can hear, as if it was yesterday, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Fed, testifying before this Congress--and right after President Bush was sworn into…

I think the first place we should start in these loan agreements is the $20 billion we spent in Iraq on reconstruction.

I realize we have a vote coming, so just some quick questions.

But in terms of NASA, it is true for the record, that this is an increase. This request is an increase in your budget. Is that accurate?

There should be no reason for anyone in our country, no matter what their political stripes, to not encourage people to comply with the Census.

The Chairman has been quite supportive of NASA. And the Subcommittee always follows his lead.

I just want to make sure that the record is clear. I mean, as long as we understand that at this point in time, at the pre-high school in our country, none of the teachers are even subject certified for the most part.

It is an increase over the request that was made from last year.

The country was headed off a cliff. So your team and this administration has done a good job.

I am very sympathetic to the request in terms of the reserve fund and the 15 percent.

This nonsense is nonconstructive in terms of doing the important constitutional work that your Department has.

I can understand the desire for perfection here, but if you follow the Chairman's thought, and it is in your testimony, that there is a direct link between you doing your work and other Americans being about to go to work, and new…

I am very pleased to have you before the Committee, and your extraordinary record of achievement, and leadership now of one of the finest agencies in the government.

One is that our Chairman has really led the effort to secure a great deal of additional funding for NIST in the Stimulus and Recovery Act, that is some $500-plus million in a whole range of activity areas.

it is intellectually dishonest for anybody to be surprised when our kids do less well when we test them