It strikes me that there is a lot of room to have, let's say, Texas and Louisiana, which are highest cost and lowest quality move more toward Hawaii and New Hampshire which are at the other end.

Much as you pointed out, Senator Whitehouse, on that graph you showed at the first of the meeting.

I think it is time for Congress to move forward in a bipartisan fashion with meaningful cybersecurity legislation.

I would urge you to leave that in place even though there has been this misunderstanding.

I think it calls up a higher level of performance and public spiritedness.

I think one of the most satisfying aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act for me was working with Senator Brown to create the Office of Servicemembers Affairs.

I want to commend, Mr. Pollack, Pentagon Federal for adopting a Pew disclosure form. That should be the standard for financial institutions throughout the country.

What I have heard today is, I think, even more outrageous than I recollect in terms of what is being done to military personnel, particularly now in a time of war.

We shouldn't let the term 'irregular warfare' confuse us. It is not an obscure challenge understood and practiced by a few specialists; rather it is becoming the norm for our country.

cyber space, cyber security is an issue that obviously is growing in importance and presents unique opportunities, but also great challenges to our Nation and our Nation's military.

The Internet obviously has changed the world in so many ways, not the least of which is our Nation's sense of use it in the military and how it has affected modern warfare.

One of those is, obviously, our fiscal security. Right now, obviously, the Nation is challenged in that we have a weak economy, and we have exceptionally high budget deficits.

the challenge is that it is not that they come here to study at the great universities...but we actually kick them out.

we lose the opportunity to show people all over the world the power of democracy.

We face particular challenges there, and we haven't quite gotten our arms around what those challenges are and how do we best guard against that threat.

Obviously, diplomacy, information, our military power, our economic power, these are all vitally important to our national security.

Our nuclear deterrent, obviously, must remain credible while we are simultaneously looking to components of our arsenal where we can save revenue.

With respect to the nuclear area, sir, I would make a personal appeal, and that is that this committee needs to influence the thinking of another jurisdiction, in Energy and Water, with respect to, in particular, the renovation of the B61…