Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

The taxpayers deserve a thoughtful, regular review of their government's spending.

We're not playing hardball here, ... We've got to make sure that we're spending our dollars wisely. If we come in with too little, too late, and they look at the agreement that we're drafting and that's unacceptable to them, then we'll have to cross that bridge when we get to it.

AT&T is spending years and billions of dollars to imitate a network that Comcast has al ready built. We've seen nothing... that we can't exceed.

AT&T is spending years and billions of dollars to imitate a network that Comcast has already built. We've seen nothing ... that we can't exceed.

She wanted something responsible with the taxpayers' dollars. It's appropriate, and it gets the job done.