Were you disturbed by the report, as disturbed as I was?
During the Foreign Relations Committee hearing when we were questioning Secretary Clinton, there were certainly accusati...
I have to admit this does not make much sense to me, and then both Dr. Coburn and I have an accounting background.
I think you need to be very careful when you have a very limited supplier base.
Let me just suggest, the most important ingredient is then having a dollar figure that you must save.
I think when it comes to protecting small businesses, from my standpoint, the best way of doing that is, as you were ind...
These things are available if properly used, but again, to me it is just the incentive that is really preventing this fr...
You are really actually describing the total value proposition, which is not always about cost, but it is really the tot...
I want to make sure that I am achieving the priorities of my boss, and the priority frequently is getting enough budget ...
So really, the incentive in government is failure actually pays off in government, does it not?
Do people in the agencies believe sequester is going to stay?
Well, I will tell you one thing we are doing, sequester. That is a kind of incentive, is it not?
This is not really the sexiest subject for a hearing.
So again, I am not trying to beat up on the witnesses here. I am just trying to point out the futility--and we are seein...
This has some real potential for some real dollar savings.
I just want to suggest, I have sat through enough hearings now in 2½ years of how do you reform government.
So about 92.5 percent is really State and local government funding, which underscores your point, Dr. Kellermann, that 7...
Federal support has played a critical role in helping State and local government prepare for these catastrophic events.