"I think we are all very excited about the opportunity to continue to roll out broadband."
"I had the opportunity to serve with Governor Locke during my tenure as Governor."
"We have to really focus on jobs."
"I think we have to maximize that potential, become singularly focused in coordinating that under one person that reports to you."
"I just think that is so important in this day and age when we are losing jobs to make sure that we are dealing with a level playing field when it comes to trade enforcement."
"I think that the USTR has sort of conflicting missions, negotiating trade agreements and then having to enforce them."
"I certainly want to applaud your nomination, and I appreciate the productive meeting that we had recently on so many issues."
"I will be anxious to see it, but it would still seem to me that, at least in this area on reinsurance, because of the national and international nature of reinsurance, that a national standard amongst..."
"But that again presupposes that you at the State level are going to better be able to assess that national or international reinsurer's ability to pay off that risk than a Federal regulator, doesn't i..."
"I want to go back to where Senator Corker was heading in trying to understand--I think I have got the frame of the challenge between the State versus the Federal regulation framing."
"the constitutional authority to deal with international trading partners in the E.U. or other parts of the world really lies with the Federal Government"
"It seems a little crazy that they had to go through this additional step to try to benefit from this program."