I would like to express my appreciation and support for you holding these kinds of hearings.

I do think he has a point in terms of at some level in oversight a 535-member board, which in effect the Federal Government has with both the House and the Senate, each trying to ask specific items, can get into a level of micromanagement.

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

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.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Thank you, Executive Leggett.

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

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.

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

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

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

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