I have always been intrigued by how do we harness financial incentives in order to drive good public policy behavior.

So how many facilities do you have, 33,000?

We want the money spent quickly, but we want it to be spent wisely.

We all know that it could also pose a security threat by the second and third generation nationals who have been radicalized.

I promise we will do. That is an easy one.

I am told that you have airport security officials who try to identify and prevent bad guys from getting on airplanes and causing trouble.

This program has provided a great benefit to our country and to those who visit our country.

I believe that relying too closely or too narrowly on just one layer over another has the potential for opening the doors to future intelligence failures.

I want to certainly welcome Senator Brown. I am delighted you are with us and we are going to take one of those congressional delegations (CODELs) and go to Afghanistan and Pakistan next month.

I go back to 1982 Commission on Social Security which Congressman Hamilton, Senator McCain, and I voted for.

We have to have a group with robust powers to be a counterbalance to the argument for security.

You need somebody out here in the government that is checking everything that is done with regard to security.

You have excellent reputations, and nothing you have said or done here today serves to demean those reputations.

Our relationship with the Islamic world is a huge foreign policy challenge, and will be for decades to come.

if we do not rein in the growth of health care costs as we go through this process, we may extend coverage to people who do not have it, but we will not be able to sustain that extension of coverage for very long.

The reason Senator Gregg and I reached the conclusion of no amendments is because in watching the process here, we have concluded if there are amendments, the Republicans will put up an amendment that will say, we will address the deficit…

I know it is extraordinary. And to your staffs. Thank you for standing up and saying, all right, this is where we draw the line.

I thought maybe we are making better use of our rescission powers than the President.