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I express my deepest gratitude to you and those who serve under your command.

Sequestration is very harmful to Air Force readiness and our airmen.

I appreciate personally the work that you do, and I just want to compliment you for hanging in there and doing what you do.

If I could ask one more question, in your testimony you say that NHTSA prefers recalls to rulemaking.

I appreciate all you folks testifying here today. It is very important to us.

This has been a very interesting hearing on what many would think would be a boring set of subjects.

Now, I do not know how many agencies have a regulatory road map like this, but it seems to me this supplements the actual rulemaking.

Some scholars have written that judicial decisions in the 1970s have led NHTSA to effectively abandon rulemaking.

Well, in my opening statement, I noted that NHTSA has issued literally hundreds of regulatory actions in just the past decade.

I think you have shown a great deal of interest in this subject matter and are moving in an appropriate way.

I think we must resist the temptation to think that federal regulators can account for and control everything around us.

I want to make clear that I view the issue before us as separate from how the Affordable Care Act addresses mental health insurance coverage.

I cannot thank you enough for the leadership of you and your family and that you continue to exercise and provide on this issue.

The mental health parity regulation will be issued tomorrow.

I will put it that way. We did some very, very important things together, and we were and still are very dear friends.

I want to applaud the Ranking Member, Senator Hatch, who was an original cosponsor of that legislation and is a champion in this fight.

I have got to be excused, but I appreciate all three of you being here as well as the prior panel.

The Mental Health Parity Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent in 2008.