Your point is so important we are going to stay at this until we turn OMB around on the question of how important prevention is and carrying out the FLAME Act.

I want to thank the chairman and ranking member for the timeliness of this.

Mobility has the potential to generate hundreds of thousands of more jobs if the Federal Government acts promptly to ensure that additional spectrum is made available to fuel future mobile broadband growth.

The title of this hearing suggests that state and local governments have forever been successful stewards of species, and that federal protection of biodiversity under the Endangered Species Act has only produced protracted litigation. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

All Americans, no matter if they live in Springfield, Massachusetts or Springfield, Missouri; Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon, have a stake in conserving biodiversity.

The ESA guards this bank, and ensures that rather than drawing down our principle, we will accrue interest by making economic development compatible with the survival and restoration of species.

Before the ESA granted federal protection to imperiled fauna and flora, state wildlife management policies had pushed species like the American alligator, gray wolf, and grizzly bear to the brink of extinction.

They didn't negotiate. They didn't bid it. And this was 2700 folks. So they could have gotten a considerable reduction. Instead what they said is we'll pay full boat but we want some perks.

They didn't negotiate. They didn't bid it. This was 2,700 folks. So they could have gotten a considerable reduction. Instead, what they said is, we will pay full boat, but we want some perks.

Under the Ryan fiscal year 2014 budget the Affordable Care Act would be eliminated. That would leave 27 million Americans out of any kind of plan, basically.

It's important to remember how Congress responded.

We have also increased our efforts at the Federal level, in both Congress and our agencies, to improve the effectiveness of our STEM education investments.

I was very supportive of this mandate because I believed it was important to look at what the Federal government has been doing and how we can improve our efforts.

Since the 1960s, NASA has been key in encouraging students to study science and engineering and I hope we don't do anything to compromise this.

NASA seems to have taken the biggest hit in the budget proposal, and this doesn't make any sense to me.

Improving STEM education in the United States has been a major focus of mine since I came to Congress.

Unfortunately, prior to the release of the CoSTEM Strategic Plan, OMB included a proposal in the President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget of a sweeping reorganization of Federal STEM education programs.

Improving STEM education is the United States--in the United States has been a major focus of mine since before I came to Congress.