That might explain why it is hard to find volunteers if they are not reimbursed for their allowable expenses, such as travel and so on.

Okay. The Independent Budget also noted that between 2010 and 2011, that NCA's annual facilities conditional assessment, the FCA, reported a 10 percent decline, from 84 to 74 percent, in what is considered acceptable for NCA structures.

Are we spending more with the budgets for fraud detection and the IG than we are generating in restitution or repayments?

Mr. Speaker, I rise again this morning to highlight the epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the military. I'm here to decry a code of dishonor that protects rapists and punishes victims. I'm here to call out an entrenched chain of…

As I look at it, I don't know what the differential is in cost.

I want to compliment the Chair of this Committee in recognizing the important function we have to look at government programs and evaluate the fraud.

Well, democracy is costly. I don't think we can use the argument that it is costly.

A 1 percent fraud rate is just remarkable, and I am very impressed by what you are doing.

I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

Mr. President, we are back in our fourth week trying to get a transportation bill through this body. To me, it is a very sad statement about the dysfunction of this body that we spent approximately 3 weeks dithering over a contraception…

Mr. President, I thank my friend for putting the gas price situation into a larger picture and also note that one other factor playing a role is manipulation due to some of the instability in the world that our President is certainly…

I am very concerned that Planetary Science programs received a 21 percent cut in the FY 2013 budget.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the time during these quorum calls be charged to both sides equally. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Last year, Senator Barbara Boxer and I wrote letters to Secretary Leon E. Panetta...

But when some of that science is very old, that is not a good thing, I don't think.

Many of us are concerned that the marine spatial planning goes forward without having the up-to-date data necessary.

Under the category of lessons learned in 2009 and 2010, what are we doing?

What this Congress ought to be talking about is what we can do today for generations 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now.