It's a joy to work with her. We actually work on getting results, and we work together, and we explore our differences of opinion.
So that might be early next year that you could say to Senator Feinstein and me and what the schedule is and what the cost objective is?
So the answer is yes, you're going to amend the 1251 budget, 1251 number.
the United States DOD and the President have said in their so-called 1251 figure that we need $372 billion more for nuclear weapons moderniz...
Right. Let me shift quickly to my other two.
But our responsibility in oversight is to try to protect the taxpayer dollars, and we have so many urgent needs within just this budget that...
So basically you are saying this is a bad investment for the taxpayer?
Then let me approach it this way with you because reading this is of concern to me...
$500 billion has come out of Medicare.
I want to make sure that on the uranium facility at Oak Ridge, that as you go through a competition for management--and that's your prerogat...
So manufacturing 10 or 20 and then otherwise processing an additional number of pits.
we may want to do it on others but just on this one.
So you'll be able to tell us about the same time you tell the Office of Management and Budget, which will probably be October, November, wha...
It is serious business. I mean, we're talking about billions of dollars here, and we just don't have billions of dollars.
this particular order clarifies that agencies must identify and consider regulatory approaches that reduce burdens.
I mean, isn't the question, is the project ready to receive funding for a 2-year demonstration about whether it works or not.
So you might have design 90 percent complete by the fall, then it will take you another 3 or 4 months to satisfy yourself that you got the r...
it seems to me that, using good Navy procedure, that there ought to be a single person accountable to Senator Feinstein and to me for an on-...
