So is it fair to say we have control of those funds----

So, you have given me a lot of information to make it even harder to think about cutting.

What is the Department of Defense's plan for these two critical functions, for the overall future workload at BGAD in this vein and for the relevant work force at BGAD?

We have to do the necessities, and the necessities are to get that by to be a more productive body of water.

I think that it is critical that efforts on the Chesapeake Bay are focused on results, and that there is accountability with that particular program.

I wish the gentleman from New Jersey was right and Dodd-Frank completely eliminated too-big-to-fail.

We will need oil and gas for decades, and one of the paragraphs it says, 'Obama also says the industry is getting big bucks and subsidies each year. Not true.'

I don't think we ought to be subsidizing any form of energy production whether it is nuclear, oil, wind or solar.

Don't American consumers deserve accurate price signals so that they can make rational decisions about what fuels to use and what equipment to buy?

We need wind and solar. We have that in the Central Valley of California, but we also have hydro and biomass.

One man's subsidy is another man's tax treatment.

There is an enormous lead time from lease to development to production.

The record should show that when I say only the 10 largest markets, that was facetious.

That may be a noble goal, but we also have to protect taxpayers from the precipitous removal of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

I commend the gentleman from Staten Island on the importance--on his statement that we should keep the home mortgage deduction.

It feels like generation theft that my kids and grandkids cannot enjoy the benefits that we have had in place since 1913.

But we are in a crisis. The economy is fragile. And we need to be practical.

The average non-homeowning family in this country has an average net worth, value of everything they own in the world, of under $5,000.