I would like to address the $25 billion agreement amongst the 49 State attorneys general and the five largest mortgage lenders.

I don't really see anything tangible in this budget that addresses the deepest problem going on in America.

Let me say that we all need to recognize that, alone, simply moving boxes on an organizational chart isn't going to resolve these problems.

It is going to take leadership, both within the Administration and up here on Capitol Hill--as well as a consensus on why NNSA's mission is so important.

Has the privatization of the labs contributed to the loss of senior personnel?

What pressures, if any, result from a fee-based incentive system?

A number of employees including the unions who provided testimony to the NAS panel, and at least one former lab director, have expressed concern that the private for-profit model is harming the labs in that many senior scientists have…

The impetus for the fiscal year 2012 National Defense Authorization's request for this National Academies of Science study was concerned about safety issues.

Ranking Member Sanchez and I have agreed to take a hard look at these issues over the next few months.

I would like to say that, alone, simply moving boxes on an organizational chart isn't going to solve these problems.

Governance, oversight, and management of the nuclear security enterprise to ensure high quality science, engineering, and mission effectiveness in an age of austerity.

Mr. Langevin. Mr. Secretary, do you feel confident that the command relationships between 10th Fleet/Fleet Cyber Command, U.S. Cyber Command, and other Service cyber organizations are now adequately clarified?

This is obviously a vitally important platform, and we need to do everything we need to do to protect that program and keep it strong.

I firmly believe America is still dangerously vulnerable to a cyber attack against our networks in general and our electric grid in particular.

It hasn't been a top-down approach; this was a bottom-up approach.

A lot of kids in poorer areas can't do that, and they shouldn't be held hostage in poor-performing schools forever because they only have one chance to get that education.

By 2014 every school will be failing and every teacher will be failing.

Education shouldn't be a mystery. We should know exactly what our kids are doing.