"There's nothing wrong with having a debate about philosophy, but at the end of the day, we have to do something about jobs," Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican whip, said.
"The U.S. government cannot reward illegal market actions that have harmed U.S. manufacturers and stolen U.S. aerospace jobs," Representative Norm Dicks, a Democrat from Boeing's home state of Washington, said in September.
"What children post online or search as part of their homework should not haunt them as they apply to colleges or for jobs," Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, said in a recent phone interview.
The last man who held the job, Representative John Linder of Georgia, was replaced after Republicans lost five seats in 1998.
"The best economic stimulus that there is a job," Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, said at a ceremony at the plant Monday.
We needed regulators actually doing their job," Representative Randy Neugebauer, a Republican from Texas who led the investigation as chairman of the oversight panel, said at a news conference on Thursday.
"I'm not sure it's the president's job to tell Speaker Pelosi how to do her job," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, told reporters a few days ago.
Although the steering committee must meet to decide the chairmanships on Thursday, it is expected that Representative Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana, will head the Commerce Committee, and that his rival for the job, Representative Michael G. Oxley, Republican of Ohio, will head a new expanded panel, the Committee on Financial Services, Republican aides said today.
"Setting aside all abstract theorizing about how big the Pentagon budget ought to be, the real question should be, Does this budget do the job?" Representative Jim Nussle, the Iowa Republican who is chairman of the committee, said in his opening statement.
When Mr. Prewitt agreed to take the job, Representative Dan Miller, a Florida Republican who is chairman of the House census subcommittee, said that managing the bureau, with its hefty budget and nearly one million employees, was a task made for "a General Schwarzkopf, not a Prof. Sherman Klunk".
And having spent more than a decade around these people -- there's nothing so difficult about the job Representative or Senator that someone as impressive as Caroline Kennedy couldn't master in short order, if not on Day 1. Don't get me wrong.
