I do not think there really is one side or the other, and that is one of the reasons for this hearing.

We are producing more oil and gas on public lands now than we were during the last years of the Bush Administration.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I am glad we have moved beyond that.

Dr. Elmendorf, I appreciate your service and the service that CBO provides the Congress, because you enable us to make more informed judgments.

It just seems like an awful lot of money. How has that $3 million been spent.

I object very strongly to making decisions on a 10-year outlook because the implication is that you know with the same kind of precision in the ninth and tenth year what the effect is going to be in the fourth and fifth year, and you do…

The relationship with Russia is an extraordinarily important one.

$10 million seems a lot in a small appropriations bill, but it is kind of a pittance in terms of what it produces

I understand that you purchase electricity.

Well, yes, if it is okay with the chairman. I am just kind of a little stunned that where we are cutting back on everything else and here we are getting ourselves involved in these cases all over the country, clearly on the wrong side of…

So unless there is new revenue coming in, or a change in the structure of those programs, then there will be no money for discretionary programs.

We have to deal with Russia. We have to deal with Putin.

Fifteen DOMA cases. So this is challenging a State who wants to depart from DOMA?

this was a program that was envisioned by people such as Senator Ted Stevens and others, had bipartisan support when it was established

We're very concerned about this storm. Believe it may be worse than the last one.

I see here that the CBO is estimating an $845-billion budget deficit, and I would add, only if current law is not changed.

We're very concerned about this storm. We believe it may be worse than the last one.