Let me ask. I think this will be for you, Mr. Hicks, but maybe somebody else wants to jump in.

I guess I would simply just add, I know our time is running about up. But that the more we can really measure as I think one of the folks testified.

It's about saving lives as we've seen some of the data shown particularly from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the amount of harm that befalls some of our troops as we have to convoy up fuels to those front lines.

Thank God he had the vision and the political support at that point to kind of make that kind of that transition.

I look at the fact that, as you pointed out, we consume 20 percent of the world's oil.

I'm going to sit here and listen to them just like you will.

I personally believe that, and it pains me to say this a little bit as a telecom guy, that over the next 25 years they'll be more jobs created and wealth created in the energy field than any other sector in the world.

I don't understand how some Members of Congress just don't seem to get it, that this initiative is about saving money.

It is that section of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which says that the alternative fuels that we purchase should be at least as clean as conventional fuels derived from petroleum.

I have, in the last few Congresses, introduced legislation to reform the H-2A Program to change the adverse effect wage rate.

Thank you--thank you Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you for bringing the Committee to this beautiful part of New York State and it's a pleasure to be here.

This area of insurance is very complex unfortunately, but it also is an area where, because you can have participation by both the government with some of the cost of it and the producer with some of the cost, it may well be the fairest…

To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

I am hopeful that we can push aside our partisan differences and continue investing in America's growth.

I am hopeful that we can find a way to shield the Urban Areas Security Initiative from further cuts.

I urge the committee to take a balanced approach.

The prospectus for NSF's replacement headquarters lease was approved by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday, March 8, 2012.

We need to too, and so I would hope that we have a balanced approach to the budget this year and that we eschew ideological rigidity in this regard for the sake of the country.