Thank you, Chairman Nelson, for calling this hearing to consider the fiscal year 2012 legislative branch budget requests.
What do you want? What don't you want? And there's an associated cost or reduction that goes with it.
I think that it has tremendous potential particularly because of the convergence with CO2 capture and carbon sequestration.
Incentives that pay for themselves are the ones that probably stand the best chance to advance.
I would like to ask members of our panel what do you think the key regulatory piece is for us...
That is a tremendous asset and a tremendous facility and I would ask that you check and get back to me that you are, through your O&M accoun...
It is, both your MILCON budget and then your O&M budget, as it is set up right now, is very important for the ability of our airmen and airc...
I commend you for it. And I want to work hard to help you achieve it on behalf of our airmen and the mission.
The reason I took the time to talk about the economic environment we live in, because that economic environment still exists.
I think one of the biggest problems in terms of the Federal Government is they're making things more complex instead of making it simple.
The challenge is dollars. As you know we're a little short of dollars here, spending more than we're taking in and that's a problem that we'...
I've always found that people react better if you ask them to do something then if you tell them they have to do something.
Taking thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people off government assistance and giving them hope is the way to go.
We are building a town on our reservation that Senator Johanns referred to.
If we were to go backwards, it wouldn't save the government a penny.
hoping for an amendment to make disciplinary proceedings public.
Well, it is a good plan, and I commend you for it. And I want to work hard to help you achieve it on behalf of our airmen and the mission.
I would ask that you check and get back to me that you are, through your O&M account, maintaining those fuel lines, for both now and for the...
