Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

How would you work with the industry to increase development on Federal lands, public lands, deploy new technologies?

There are two kinds of schools of thought. One school of thought is everybody should take a proportional reduction.

Thank you for what you do. We appreciate it.

If you would compare and identify savings that we realize by using GPO versus basically just saying to each of the Members and the Senators, 'Okay, here's a budget. You take care of your own printing. Find it where you can.'

If you were given a hold-even budget, how would you go about meeting that? What changes would you make?

There's the process of what you do and there's the substance of what you do.

Certainly can, Mr. Chairman.

Of the total outlay from TARP, how much of that has been returned?

It's incumbent on all of us to figure out how we reduce the deficit and the debt.

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