White House Chiefs of Staff

If Yucca is not the answer, let us work together on finding an answer, because the temporary fix we have now is fraught with risk.

I do not know how often executive agencies come to you and say, 'Please, please, give me more IG oversight.'

I think in the long run it serves this agency, this Bureau, better to have our own IG.

I am not in the business of quashing information. I want as much information as I can get.

I do not comment on how OIRA functions.

There is no reason for this Bureau to be a black hole, as you put it, Senator, in order to conduct that mission.

The inquiry, the sunshine that is attached to the appropriations process does not apply here.

Please put the Bureau on appropriations. Seriously.

I want to make it clear that I am going to answer every question that I can today.

I think that it actually generates money.

The overwhelming majority of the folks I think who work there just want to be good bureaucrats.

I would be happy to take a look at it.

We do take that seriously, and seriously enough to put in our semi-annual report.

I see no reason to change the policy, Congressman.

We just want to be good bureaucrats and implement the law.

We're going to spend a little bit more time on things like accountability and transparency.

I'm going to try really hard to try and fix that, to tailor regulations to the size and the sophistication of the various entities that we oversee.

I don't think anybody in this chamber would suggest that the community banks or the credit unions were the cause of the financial crisis.

I know how hard it is to get unanimous support in this chamber and on the House floor.

I'm a big fan of regular order, and the way that I think it's supposed to work... was that the Senate would pass a version of a bill.

I believe that to be the case. Yes, sir.

It is fair to say that I was hostile to the existence of the Bureau.

You have to change the statute.

I am going to enforce the law because that is what I get paid to do.