I think it is impossible to not acknowledge that an economy-wide greenhouse gas program would have a net negative impact on GDP.

I think some of the doomsday scenarios that we are hearing are vastly overstated.

Hey, this is smart deliberation.

I like Dick Cheney personally. But I really don't care what Dick Cheney thinks. And I'm not sure a lot of Americans do. Look at the policy they left us. Look at the policy of neglect they left us in Afghanistan. Look at the policy we…

Thanks for being a good role model over at the State Department and USAID for the rest of us.

I think contracting. All this really comes down to contracting, and when it is done ad hoc in stovepipes by different agencies, not sharing information, not building it together, you get a lot of systems that, at the end of the day, some…

I find it even more troubling that OMB, which is known for their budget prowess, has never asked for a detailed accounting of what an agency spends on cyber security.

I suspect you have been following the current debate about whether there ought to be a cyber coordinator.

In a day and age when we have seen in the first 8 years of this decade, we literally doubled our Nation's debt, we ran it up by another $1.

I think we will wrap it up at this point. I have another hearing that started at 9:30 this morning that is still going on on climate change legislation.

In fact, in 2002, Congress passed what is known as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), to help prevent many of the problems that we are going to be discussing today.

What works at State may not work at Commerce. It may not work in intelligence.

What were the key elements again, please?

I appreciate the kind words you have had to say about the legislation we have reintroduced this year.

I think it is a very important step in the right direction.

I am concerned that the people who work in that office may not have the cyber security qualifications.

Why do you suppose the folks at the top were so supportive?

Agencies are making the decision right now to spend another $1.3 billion to produce the paperwork we see here. Is there anything we can do about that?