The bottom line is the law says that they will be financed, the federal law, but we have not taken into account the laws of economics.

I know Senator Coburn is one of the most fluent people on these issues and I appreciate your presence here for that reason.

Thank you for spending your time, this has been very enlightening.

The president's budget gets us off to a good start.

For Social Security, we can follow the path set by President Obama's most recent budget request, failing to meet the test for leadership.

Well, I could understand the sympathy that you have; you represent the smaller developers very well, but my question is back home in Cleveland I have people who are looking at $4 or $5 a gallon for gas and are wondering why are these oil…

I think the logic of the American people would suggest that private sector solution will be much better than a government-imposed solution.

Well, I want to make sure that I correctly. This is the President's budget that I'm citing under the Department of Energy.

I appreciate that, thank you, for the members of the panel here.

do you think that these industries should continue to be rewarded with tax breaks and other benefits?

For too long, politicians in Washington have not been honest with the American people, and seniors in particular, about Medicare and Social Security.

We do not see this as a big stretch, and we are applying finite dollars because of pending bankruptcy.

So would it be fair to say that cutting the payroll tax without reducing the obligations that the payroll tax pays for is simply playing a shell game over which taxes are going to pay for those obligations?

To be against birth control is a right in America. To deny birth control to American women is way beyond what is right.

I think it is important for the women of this country to have that choice for themselves, not for you to decide.

These new technologies can be easy prey for hackers or terrorists who seek to bring down unprotected networks.

Can you talk about that for a minute?

Protecting our critical infrastructure from cyber attacks is, of course, of vital importance.