I will submit a statement for the record.

The problem with E is that it costs a little more money than the others.

Well, I am going to know something in the first year, but I am not going to know----

if we want this data, we ought to pay for it

your description of the treatment situation in the country today was pretty grim

It is our duty and our responsibility to make sure that this city is placed on solid financial ground.

I have been given a capital cities comparative analysis.

How do we get something like this passed in Congress? We have got a tough--this is not an easy time.

I want to help close the financial gap and help ensure the long-term economic health of our Nation's capital.

I believe that the Federal Government must recognize the costs it places on the city and the burden it places on the city's infrastructure.

So I would maintain that one could argue that that figure that you cited is understated.

If you were trying to fix this, one way you could possibly fix it is to go into those different formulas.

And as Dr. Rivlin said, you know, we all know just from our own houses that the longer you wait, if you have an old house--and we have an old house here in the District--the longer you wait, the more you are going to pay.

I sit here today as one who believes that it is important that we continue to maintain and strengthen going forward our reliance on nuclear energy as part of, not all of, but part of our energy needs in this country.

I am one of those people, Mr. Secretary, who always sees the glass as half-full.

Senator Moynihan taught me before he left the Senate that we have rarely found a way to change something in government until we find a way to measure it.

I would suggest that. If others do not want to leave that up to a commission and want to have a more prescriptive nature from Congress, I can see doing that.

We put forward a series of tests in the legislation.