One thing that I've found not just in this position, but also as Governor is that the more I knew about a program, the harder it was to cut.

Thank you.

Well, clearly, cutting mid-term has ramifications that could be draconian.

But condition alone will only be part of it because mission requirements would be equally or, in many cases, more important?

Dr. Billington, you mentioned that if you have subscriptions and you stop them for 1 year, it's not as though you lost 12 volumes, or, 12 issues, but it's an even bigger impact than that.

You've done an outstanding job in leveraging nonappropriated funds over the last several years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you gentlemen for being here today.

We want more information, but we want to pay less for it.

Is it possible that there are some other things that could be held back, pushed into the future, to address a lower request for 2012?

I think that it's important to point out that every agency of Government is going to be faced with the problem of how to continue to operate during the next 6 months.

We're our own worst enemy in that regard.

When the lives of Americans are threatened on our very own border why would not a task force--a true task force to look into this--be created?

I can't think of a more awesome responsibility that a Member of Congress faces than to consider the authorization of this type of military action.

That seems to bear some parallel with the situation in Kuwait under President George Herbert Walker Bush.

What we have said is that, pursuant to the Security Council resolution, those funds are held in trust for a future democratic government of Libya.

And who's going to pay for it?

Just in closing, Mr. Chairman, the market will not take care of peak oil. Remember I said it here.

Of the funds that we have secured in the United States, over $30 billion, from the Qadhafi government and regime--is that correct?