Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg
Judd Alan Greggserved as the 76th Governor of New Hampshire and was a United States Senator from New Hampshire, who served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics. He currently serves as the Chair of the Public Advisory Board at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Gregg was nominated for Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet by...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.
We need to have presidential leadership and it can't be the usual suspects, ... They can't just send up another list of the requests that they made at the beginning of the budget process and claim that they've done their job.
Well, I've already contributed, Kathy and I, to the Katrina flood fund. I'm sure we'll also be contributing to many other worthy causes, especially in New Hampshire.
We must make sure that the people and areas that were directly affected by the storm get the help they need to get on their feet and get their communities rebuilt, ... At the same time, we must take every precaution to ensure that these funds are spent wisely.
We all know we're going to have to put this off because of the present intensity of the Katrina issues, but whether it's two weeks, three weeks, I don't know. But the view is we're going to still execute this reconciliation package in a timely manner,
Were we able to fully meet every need? No, given fiscal constraints, we focused our limited resources on eliminating the most serious and detrimental vulnerabilities of our homeland security,
We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone.
The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
It is the American way to reward ability.
Well, she didn't run after me, ... She just told me I forgot one of the sheets.
Yes, it will cost an extraordinary amount of money ... and yes, it will obviously increase the deficit significantly in the short term,
We just look at the House sometimes and shake our heads.
We know mass transit is an issue. We could probably do another $100 million into mass transit and not affect this bill substantively.