It seems to me that what you are doing is dividing accountability and responsibility here with, perhaps, no one being ultimately held accountable.

I am not sure that what you are suggesting gives us an accountable system. Whom do we hold accountable?

Because I am looking at the volume growth on physician services.

The fact is there's no excuse if we don't act on this legislation.

As Senator Mikulski said, in my home State of Maryland, we have already moved forward there.

This finding means we are making progress in answering the fundamental questions of where do we come from and whether we are alone in the Universe.

Now, six long years later, 2.5 million transportation workers have been enrolled in the TWIC program and 2.7 million TWIC cards have been printed.

Thank you very much, and thanks to our witnesses. I have to say, the work that you do is among the most exciting that those of us who are laypeople can think about.

The search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy.

I will do every single thing in my power to make sure--I don't--I hope there is no retaliation--but to protect you, because you are so very, very important.

I just think this notion of thinking about that the country has too many young and poorly educated people, and they can't compete for decent jobs with good standards of living, I'm just still not sure how relevant that is to the…

I worry deeply actually that one of the great things that has happened in the world is the rest of the world has become much more like the United States.

What troubles me about your answer, sir, is that you're treating this as a cluster of individual cases rather than a nationwide problem.

We value your commitment and dedication and we thank you for your service to our country.

See, these go to systemic reform, not every case is different.

I'm for our Federal employees having certainty, that if they work hard and they have a job with their Government and they're doing the job and meeting performance standards they should get pay.

legislation is really necessary. The Executive order the President put into effect is a very important step, but legislation is necessary to really give us the tools we need.

What is your view of an approach to both the sequester and our economy?