I do that as a Senator--whether it is with the upcoming census, tax filings, or even discussions on health care.

You get a prize for coming the furthest to today's hearing.

Instead of thinking of ways to prevent over-classification, agencies seem to classify first and ask questions later.

All right. Well, I expect if you are confirmed, we will want to follow up on this...

That is a great statement.

One way to save a lot of time and money, as we all know, is to catch problems before they spiral out of control.

We are glad that the two of you are here. We are glad that you brought your parents all the way from Switzerland.

Senator Carper. Very well. Thank you.

I think you and I discussed this briefly a couple of weeks ago...

We need to address the problem from the start, at the point that records are created.

We could be your back-up.

In football, they do audibles with the quarterback at the line of scrimmage, so maybe we will do one of those.

I have about 300 more questions here. I am not going to read them all, but I am going to submit maybe a couple more questions for the record.

It does not allow citizens to hold our government as accountable as they otherwise might be able to.

Ten percent of the funds from the auctioning of carbon emissions allowances would go into a pot, and that pot would fund low emission transportation improvements like bikeways and sidewalks.

Senator Carper and I have prepared legislation that would provide strict national limits on sulfur, nitrogen and mercury emissions from power plants.

I think OMB can play a part here by putting our energy toward training and education and sharing best practices.

a plane that we have been building all these years, its mission-capable rate is down around 50 percent, where we spend, I think, about $40,000 per flight hour for the aircraft that has never flown a single mission in Iraq or Afghanistan…