It appears that benefits are stable or even increasing.
It is Congress that made their job a nightmare.
I appreciate your reference to the fact that the single most important element of entitlement reform, the entitlement that is out of control...
I deeply appreciate what the Department has done in the administration of the new health care reform.
Well, we'd love to be on the early distribution list so that we can incorporate some of the ideas into our reauthorization working with the ...
I just had an example last week in my office where there's a critical rail project in my district...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
But I think we need to perhaps elevate that issue higher or look at whether the exception process is the right way to go.
I think it's important to put an emphasis on looking at lower cost, more appropriate alternatives, that doesn't require you to take an excep...
Well, not under existing law. There are five States eligible under the pilots, but I'm saying if we made it a part of permanent law that Sta...
Bottom line, there is no excuse for unnecessary bureaucratic delays, and we have got to look at ways to eliminate those sorts of things.
And as I understand it, there is a major barrier that States don't want to waive sovereign immunity.
I am fully willing to accept the equivalence of CEQA, because in many cases it seems to exceed NEPA.
I think we've got a good framework from this. We'll look forward to Mr. Kempton's report as being instructive.
I think it is important we look at that type of comparison, so that we have an unbiased understanding of how these different sources work ov...
Even when we push and one gets changed, it seems like something else changes a few months later on some other piece of it.
Mr. Danner, as I mentioned, the levelized cost is a metric...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to jump in on this cost question...
