“The goal is to shape a package that is more targeted, that would be smaller in size and that

“The goal is to shape a package that is more targeted, that would be smaller in size and that would be truly focused on saving or creating jobs and turning the economy around.”

Republican Sen. Susan Collins

On cutting items from an $885 billion economic recovery bill that won’t jolt the economy right away.

“We all made a promise to that little girl ... that we would find the people responsible for her death and bring them to justice and we did.”

Sgt. Michael Barry

Of the Galveston, Texas, sheriff’s department, after a mother was convicted of capital murder for the death of her 2-year-old daughter.