"I listened with great interest to my friend from Florida berate you for not being here previously."
"I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety and to encourage the Federal Governme..."
"I am a member of the full committee. I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety ..."
"Thank you for holding this hearing which might at first glance appear relatively mundane but actually raises some important questions about the disbursement of Federal funding."
"What is the Federal Government doing to ensure equitable distribution of grant moneys?"
"We must make sure we do not even unwittingly add to them."
"I commend to you Susan Collins' bill. I introduced it here in the House."
"It was frankly to me a despicable thing but it became the political arena."
"We need to be cognizant to ensure that any additional reporting requirements... avoid the imposition, however, of an unfunded mandate."
"I would remind us of the fact that, for example, the successful crash effort to make sure the United States had the atom bomb before the Nazis was not competitively bid."
"But to go to a rigid formula where everything is competitively bid, especially in the research field, I think could be risky, frankly, and could choke innovation unwittingly."
"I would hope that all of us in the political arena would show a little bit more respect for what we are trying to do."