On behalf of Senator Pryor, and myself, and really Senator Hutchison, and all of us, we need to know the consequences.
We need you, at the Secretary's level, to really use whoever you will designate to be a hands-on manager of these costs ...
We are looking at NOAA.
We don't want NOAA cut loose.
we don't want a sequester either.
The coast is part of our heritage, part of our identity, but it's also a big part of our economy.
The standards for technology? Standards for management? What----
I am obsessed with cyber espionage.
We need to know what planes, what sequencing, and what money.
Build it here. Sell it everywhere.
The Commerce Department's job is to work with the President, the Congress, and the private sector to really create jobs.
Cyber espionage is a very considerable threat. We're not fully prepared, as a country, to address that.
Let's all work together, so that we can be a more frugal Government, and have some smart funding initiatives.
We thank you for your testimony. We look forward to your ongoing cooperation.
We really do want to let the people who work at Commerce know... thank the 40,000-plus people who work hard every day to...
Now, I'm not faulting the people who work for the Census Bureau, but, again, I worked with Secretary Guttierez, then Sec...
we need to really now take a real steadfast attempt to bring these things that are always out of control, always coming ...
We wonder where the NOAA agency will go, and will it stay in Commerce.
