Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

We feel that flexibility should be allowed for local teachers and administrators to decide whether that money needs to go just for teachers or can it be used for individuals with disabilities ... or for computers or roof repairs,

I have not heard anybody that isn't in favor of having some flexibility in their schedule. Everybody I've talked to wants to do that.

This is an exercise that requires flexibility and patience. In the next couple of days, we'll have evacuees in Washington. We'll still have them.

Supposedly, George Washington gave him a cannon. And every year on the 4th of July, he'd fire 14 shots. One for each state and one for Gen. Washington. He was one of the important people in our history.

The monies that the president needs to fight the war are being given to him, ... We'll give him some flexibility, but we're still holding on to the strings of the purse.