You have to be relentless, that none of this is easy, none of this comes quickly.

There is governmental oversight, but there is not a governmental efficiency metrics performance group.

There really is not that equivalent at the Federal level, and I think that has been one of the challenges.

It would seem to me... we are going to see them again anytime soon.

Thank you again for your good work and thank you for appearing before us today.

Well, Governor, thank you very much. You have been very generous with your time, and congratulations on this 10-year experiment.

We actually did have Michael Barber come in and talk to us about the Delivery Unit model from the U.K.

I think--I can only speak for my State--a lot of folks did not understand what that act involved, did not understand it was the third largest tax cut in American history.

As Senator Warner mentioned, very few public problems can be isolated to a particular department.

Thank you, Executive Leggett.

But it has got to have that relentless----

One of the things we are hoping, working with President Obama's administration, is with a legislative partner we can institutionalize this.

Governor, you tried this model out at the city level where you could get your arms around it. You grew it to the State level.

Thank you for your presentation. In respect of your time, we will try to make sure each of us takes 5 or 6 minutes in our question period.

I think Governor O'Malley is one of the most effective Governors not only in the history of our State but I think in our Nation in using these performance evaluations to make sure taxpayer money is being properly spent.

We developed some of the similar cross-cutting policy goals and measures to support them, similar to what Governor O'Malley has done.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue.

We need to do what Governor O'Malley has already done in Maryland: create governmentwide goals and incent our Federal agencies to work more closely together.