I think all of that will be determined in the negotiations.
I find these increases to be totally reasonable, but not fundable unless we deal with the sequester.
What I think would suffer would be innovation.
We have a policy, obviously, that precludes folks from not paying full time and attention to their duties while they are...
I certainly don't want to see us using taxpayer dollars to have to do environmental mitigation on land that we went out ...
But there would be fewer officers on patrol, less money for training, if any money for training.
I think it's important in the digital age to remember that books matter, libraries matter.
Well, can I just ask a question? There are several questions.
However, I would say that there is an upside to maturity and that we have been doing this for a number of years.
Funding for the Library of Congress... supports the subject-matter experts and library scientists who curate and preserv...
What about the expenditure side? Am I misunderstanding what an energy savings performance contract is?
I think the most important thing to consider in the future, in how you modernize the Copyright Office from the point of ...
But does the expertise, is it the same set of knowledge and expertise and all the rest of it on the Library side?
So, in the interest of time, I'd actually like to maybe put these questions in the record.
I look forward to working with our two agencies today and throughout the year to ensure that both have the resources nee...
I am anxious today to get started on our work together examining the budgets of agencies funded in this bill and making ...
Access to mental health services remain a tremendous challenge, particularly in rural areas.
If most of the savings occur outside of the scoring window, it becomes a policy and an appropriations question.