There's a lot of conflict in Congress and between the parties, and that's just the way democracy works.

Money spent now on Alzheimer's, I think, will pay great dividends and will help young Americans realize the American dream.

We don't have private sector dental health care usually. It's not that the Army's just inheriting a problem that society has.

I cannot think of a more dire consequence to the United States really in many ways than to have Mexico just collapse.

The men and women of our superb Active and Reserve Armed Forces have been on a wartime footing now for over 7 years.

Anything you can think of to deal with this problem, whether you need money or legal changes, we stand ready to help.

I cannot think of a better use of the Congress' time and efforts to come together and come up with a game plan to deal with our consumption back here at home.

Thank you for the job you've done for the country, and I think you can leave your post looking back and saying that you were there when it mattered the most maybe since World War II for sure.

I would urge you, when it comes to budget matters, programs that need funding, to be more aggressive, lean forward.

This disease is unusual in the sense that it represents what I think is the biggest challenge to the country--demographic changes.

He is very helpful to us. Has been. A wonderful individual to work with.

Given how important robust payment and settlement systems are to financial stability, a good case can be made for granting the Federal Reserve explicit oversight authority for systemically important payment and settlement systems.

There are institutions too big to fail.

[T]he United States also needs improved tools to allow the orderly resolution of a systemically important nonbank financial firm, including a mechanism to cover the costs of the resolution.

NextGen is something that the FAA cannot do alone. It requires the involvement of academia, industry and all of our stakeholders as we move ahead.

Thank you for your very excellent testimony and for the fine work that the General Accounting Office, now the Government Accountability Office, has done for us.

Thank you for your excellent testimony and for the fine work that the General Accounting Office has done for us.

We all share your view that the current numbers of suicides in the Army are unacceptable.