"there is no Federal agency that is perceived to lack commonsense more and doing more to endanger the American economy than the EPA."
"this is not exactly the type of hearing I thought I was signing up for when I ran for this job."
"The more the government collects data of any sort--you know, we have seen every agency. Eventually, it is going to get out somewhere."
"What we can do is we can say that, before it's presented as some special holiday, before the school children of America, we point out the background of the holiday and why it was created."
"Well, we all have our offices open on Columbus Day. Right."
"There's a big difference."
"Be on the lookout if a K through 12 or college teacher tries to tell your children or grandchildren it's a real holiday."
"I think we have to agree most Americans wouldn't choose to celebrate this holiday."
"The problem I have is when they talk about this holiday without getting its history or given the limited amount of time we have in our public schools when they decide to use that time to promote Kwanz..."
"I think the underlying problem here is not enough TV types when they talk about Kwanzaa, talk about the horrible racist violent past of its founder."
"Nobody is preventing anybody from celebrating it."