You're dealing with the macro and the micro.

We are asking an increase of $100 million over the President's request.

The committee believes that future federal funding for Everglades restoration should be tied to specific progress to improve water quality.

The reported contract support costs shortfall is nearly $5 million annual just for the Choctaw Nation.

The cost-benefit and application of rules must be carefully considered. Speed should not be valued over deliberation.

I do not know how you represent as vast an amount of land and diversity as you do, but you do a great job.

the Indian Health Service did not tell this committee how much the budget was going to be short.

It is good testimony, and it involves Idaho and the northwest, so I think I will defer to those who are more intimately familiar with it.

We recognize the agencies may sometimes find that they must spend unrestricted appropriated funds to satisfy needs they believe more important than fulfilling a contractual obligation.

there would be a 99.4 million shortfall in fiscal year 2013.

I want to thank you, Chairman Young, for being here to introduce the leaders of the Alaska tribes and villages.

However, Under Secretary O'Toole said that the reassessment committee will also consider the question of, 'Could the country manage Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which would not be pushed to a Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) level?'

I support the President's energy policy to reduce our reliance on foreign sources of energy, including oil.

contract support would be underfunded by about $149 million.

The time to accelerate our withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived. Afghanistan has very little to do with the security of most Americans. Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is decimated. In fact, there may be 50, at the most, al Qaeda…

Senator Pat Roberts and his staff have been working on behalf of the Commission's Executive Committee to encourage, arrange, and schedule Eisenhower family meetings at the Commission's expense with Frank Gehry and other pertinent parties.

I thank the Senator from South Dakota. I am pleased that we are here finally on a topic of significant importance to the country. We have heard for a long time about the necessity of creating jobs, of creating an opportunity for Americans…

just to conclude, I would like to thank and commend the Senator from South Dakota for his leadership on these issues and again express my pleasure that we are finally taking up legislation that will make it easier for new businesses to…