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In addition to that, Machias Savings Bank may have known your family for 50 years. Now, on top of this, Mr. Speaker, the bank takes all the risk. They own the load. So, God forbid, if a storm comes up and sinks your traps and your boat in…

I think when it comes to--with all due respect--the mission of the SEC, that I know you are responsible for upholding, it makes a lot of sense to make sure that our investors have the option of receiving their paper financial reports…

One of the problems, it seems to me, is that people that we elect President generally are politicians, and politicians generally don't think much about management.

The person who's in charge at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, it seems to me, has an enormous role to play, if they choose to play it.

If the oversight from the White House is more about policy and politics than it is about running the enterprise--I mean, there's a reason it's called 'the administration.'

Very quickly, I just wanted to mention that Senator Enzi and a number of us have a bill on biennial budgeting.

I would respectfully suggest, as I did for the CMO position and the sub-CMO positions, that you need statutory qualification requirements.

I was a staff member here in the Senate and was once called upon to set up a hearing.

I am concerned about the sudden, aggressive price hikes in certain off-patent drugs where there is just one supplier.

The Congress oversees the branches--the Departments of the executive branch. But, it has no responsibility to oversee the coordination of them.

We need to be thinking about modularization and modernization as built into the concept because we are building a 35- or 40-year asset, and it is obsolete the day it is built.

I cannot help but believe that there is overlap having these multiple intelligence agencies essentially all watching what Assad is doing or what Putin is doing.

I think it is important to put into perspective the discussion about defense spending and domestic discretionary spending.

So it is my contention that when you have a trucker in Bangor, Maine, or a teacher in Lewiston, Maine, in the greatest district, in the greatest State in the country, and they are doing their best to put aside $50 or $100 a month to make…

Trying to develop a weapon system that has everything for everybody at one time that will be fixed in time is just the wrong way to go.

When people know what the rules are, that is when you can avoid conflict.

I think a point you made that I had not really thought about was the idea of a joint private sector cybersecurity effort perhaps facilitated by the Government but not with Government involvement so we do not have the privacy issues.

It is the question of what is an act of war and when will we respond because if an act of war is not defined, your opponent has to know that you are going to consider it an act of war and that there will be a response.