"I also want to apologize to the Committee. You have all had to endure at times stories from me of my glory days as governor."
"If you do not have transparency, it feeds into the public's distrust and cynicism of everything we do."
"the goals of the bill, which include transparency of Federal spending and consistent data standards, are admirable, and I certainly support them."
"I do think one area that we ought to continue to promote is having the Federal Government... move more quickly into the cloud."
"The primary goal of the DATA bill is to show us--both the taxpayers and the policymakers--the money."
"The public deserves to know how each Federal dollar is spent."
"I'm very much in favor of that. And I think that could help improve U.S. competitiveness for the entire American industry."
"I hope that vote in the House will mean that we'll recognize that on sequestration--that to continue to punt on these issues, that maybe this will mean we can see the kind of bipartisan consensus that..."
"My hope would be, since we have dramatically upgraded our wind tunnel investments in the United States, that Boeing would no longer do that testing on the European wind tunnels."
"I would also point out for some of my colleagues that because of the actions we took as this Congress in Dodd-Frank and otherwise, we have seen an increase in capital in American banks in excess of $3..."
"We actually have legislation to try to promote these startup activities, Startup Act 2.0, which addresses the very issues you talked about as well as the issue of talent."