Thank you very much for your testimony and for your service to our Nation.
Lead poisoning prevention is critically important, as you say.
The budget is very disappointing, honestly.
I want to stress my disappointment. And can you give us an idea of why we couldn't get more money into the LIHEAP budget...
And without Barbara's leadership, thousands and thousands of children--and Senator Bond's--would have been not only adve...
We might be at an inflection point, because the permissive environment... is rapidly changing.
Your Principal Military Deputy for Acquisition, Lieutenant General Davis, was quoted in the press a few weeks ago statin...
I have been working on this issue for years. When I first did a deep dive on this in 2007, I can tell you pretty much no...
There's always the debate whether budgets drive strategy or strategy drives budgets.
Do you agree that there is at least a moral choice being made when we discount harm to future--there is something selfis...
We also tax work, income, earnings.
And they may very well be jobless because they lost their job in the recession involuntarily.
We run the most disgracefully wasteful health care system in the world, probably by a factor of 50 percent, maybe more.
You might actually find value in it as a screener of really bad ideas that nobody would put money behind.
I do not think we do very well in government anywhere is the prototyping function.
if you tax things that are, quote, ``bad,'' that means you have more revenue which you can then use to reduce the taxes ...
This has been a very useful discussion. I thank the Chairman and the Ranking Member for holding it.
Did you mean to imply that, or am I reading that wrong?