Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I applaud the more honest picture that this budget presents."

"It strikes me that the problem here is that in order to achieve those large reductions, a considerable amount of executive management, of experimentation, of flexible and dynamic regulatory activity g..."

"I appreciate it. I have gone over my time, which I was doing happily and willingly because I was at the end of the line here."

"Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, ..."