I do think one area that we ought to continue to promote is having the Federal Government... move more quickly into the cloud.

if you are a troll, it is almost impossible to get a district court injunction.

The public deserves to know how each Federal dollar is spent.

The title of today's hearing could not be more perfect: 'Show Me the Money.'

the goal of his bill was to basically show the taxpayer the money.

I also want to apologize to the Committee. You have all had to endure at times stories from me of my glory days as governor.

If you do not have transparency, it feeds into the public's distrust and cynicism of everything we do.

the goals of the bill, which include transparency of Federal spending and consistent data standards, are admirable, and I certainly support them.

The primary goal of the DATA bill is to show us--both the taxpayers and the policymakers--the money.

I'm very much in favor of that. And I think that could help improve U.S. competitiveness for the entire American industry.

My hope would be, since we have dramatically upgraded our wind tunnel investments in the United States, that Boeing would no longer do that testing on the European wind tunnels.

Today the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee convenes the third in our series of hearings related to the Afghan National Security Forces.

History is a good teacher. It is not the only teacher, but it is a good teacher in determining how we make decisions going forward.

I think everybody's focus is that, and I think you have pointed that out.

What our focus is is to bring that information together, have it as a conduit for decisionmaking by the full committee.

So to be putting our money on algae at this point, although it certainly should be researched, would be a foolish bet for the next 15 or 20 years.

I would also point out for some of my colleagues that because of the actions we took as this Congress in Dodd-Frank and otherwise, we have seen an increase in capital in American banks in excess of $300 billion.

it is remarkable--and I think this is why Congress is at record low levels of approval--that we cannot step up, almost un-American that we cannot do our job relative to what is being asked of other people around the world.