I am concerned, and I am sure you are, that the 2012 budget proposal does not request funding for the mathematics and science partnership pr...
In the area of mathematics and science partnerships, the United States continues to fall behind, as we know, other developed countries in re...
How are we going to pay for this, because that is going to be the bottom line up here this year and in the future.
If we do not do this, where are the jobs going to come from in the future?
That is $1 billion here and $8 billion there, and it is real money?
I am gravely concerned that the Department of Education has delayed some of the tough choices that are necessary to ensure national economic...
Eighteen billion dollars.
But if you cannot have it all, and you cannot--I wish you could, and I wish that I were here when we owed no money as a Nation, because I th...
I am concerned that replacing formula-funded programs with so-called competitive programs will result in the redirection of critical Federal...
How can you consider an over 20 percent increase since 2010 a responsible budget that emphasizes fiscal restraints?
But we are all taking a chainsaw to our budget right now to a certain extent because of our failure to act.
However, in your written statement, Mr. Secretary, you state, and I quote, 'Our request is a responsible budget that emphasizes both fiscal ...
Will you as the regulators implement Basel III capital?
You have to look under the hood and make sure there are not any regulatory gaps in there that would bring systemic risk.
We do not want to go down that road.
I hope that the Chairman will continue this, to hold a hearing specifically on the condition of our banking system.
If a foreign bank... doing business in this country if they are undercapitalized, do you have any power over them at all?
the comprehensive bill was not a good piece of legislation, the American people agreed with that and it failed