Those are just a few of the exceptional challenges that our country, including our government, needs to be prepared to address.
From the work that you have done at GAO, could you provide us maybe with an example or two of how an agency was able to bring about better o...
He has inherited an economic crisis that has required unprecedented international cooperation to jump-start the world's economies.
Since coming into office, President Obama has faced--I think it is an understatement--a complicated set of challenges, both domestic and int...
GAO has previously recommended that OMB should work with agencies to ensure they are making adequate investments in training on performance ...
I think it needs to be a collaborative effort, and certainly we want to involve you and your staff in helping us think through how is it mos...
I think certainly consulting with Congress in that process would be very important and valuable.
Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine.
The first State will become next year the last State to host a national park.
Say that one more time.
I am optimistic. There is a lot of good stuff in place.
I think OMB can play a part here by putting our energy toward training and education and sharing best practices.
That is a good story. Thank you.
What we are working on just down the hall in the next building is, I think, of historic consequence.
When you are running a budget deficit, in the last 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's histo...
But we did use pretty good performance data, and I think it was instructive and helpful to my colleagues as they made the tough decisions fo...
the President and the Congress can play vital roles in setting the tone at the top and communicating to agency leaders that performance matt...
As you approach the resolution of an incredibly controversial issue, ideologically, politically and every other way, usually, you find exces...
