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 o...
But we did use pretty good performance data, and I think it was instructive and helpful to my colleagues as they made th...
the President and the Congress can play vital roles in setting the tone at the top and communicating to agency leaders t...
As you approach the resolution of an incredibly controversial issue, ideologically, politically and every other way, usu...
All right. A different question, a different area. As you know, progress has been made in recent years in improving the ...
Good. Well, I want you to tackle it, and I thank you.
This year, we are on track to run up the biggest single-year deficit ever.
And I would just hope, as we extend the three-state demonstration for Medicare cost recovery to the other 47 States, tha...
Have you all given some thought and attention to another related concern, and that is with respect to agencies making de...
The work that we are doing here, this is real money.
It would not leave much of a future for your kids or for mine or for any of our children.
Good. Well, I like that philosophy.
Given the kind of budgetary challenges that we face, it is imperative that we do that.
Was it Richard Nixon who used to say that the only people who do not make mistakes are people who do not do anything?
I have spoken, I believe, with you before and with Mr. Zients about some work that is going on within the Department of ...
In 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.
I am pleased that the President has sent us such a qualified candidate for this position.
Tom Carper of Delaware... pressed the president behind closed doors to bend on that and specifically, to hold off on tha...