"I personally believe that we ought to give the President's--this President and future presidents the ability that any Governor has had to do executive reorganization."
"We have got to do a better job of figuring out and decoding for the American public, how our Federal dollars are actually spent and what kind of value we get for the buck."
"You cannot get good value for your dollar if you have got limited resources that we have around wind energy spread amongst 82 different programs in six different agencies."
"this DATA Act that Senator Warner has introduced and I am the cosponsor of we think is helpful because we think it does create more transparency"
"I was originally hoping that we would move towards even greater requirement of moving towards a more single financial standard."
"How does this pass the smell test? Why isn't this information more known that we have a system that is so kind of out of whack?"
"This should be an area where I think there should be a great deal of bipartisan accord."
"I want to also acknowledge my good friend, Senator Crapo, who I have spent countless hours as we have talked about how do we get our spending and debt and deficit under control."
"One of the things that I find that is so frustrating is we do not measure these programs' effectiveness against each other."
"I want to thank Chairman Murray for allowing this task force to continue."
"I believe very strongly that our Federal Government-- and I did not come to this totally as a neophyte."