We need to place a high priority on NASA's Earth Science research, and I look forward to discussing this topic further today.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and work of a dear friend, a North Carolina giant, the Honorable Ralph A. Hunt, Sr.: a community leader, businessman, educator, former North Carolina State Senator; and a devoted husband, father…

The next time I don't want to have 90 percent of the comments coming back negative.

I don't want to make a request that is too difficult, okay? All right. So we are going to do that.

Don't you think Mr. Runcie could have illuminated some of the questions that you have been unable to answer today?

So why did you get a bonus then paid to you based on these what I would call abysmal results?

We can compel you to answer the questions.

We need to know the matrix for what performance, good performance, excellence performance, and poor performance is going to be for your senior management.

We are going to get to the bottom of this, and we are going to get it right.

The American people said if you lose over $3 billion, they would think that you should get a zero performance bonus.

How do we fix this problem where I am not coming back here with unbelievable billions of dollars?

We need to know what the performance matrices are and how we know when we are doing a great job, a good job, a mediocre job, and a poor job.

No matter how beautiful the strategy, we must occasionally look at the results.

Shouldn't he have some I guess responsibility to come before Congress and help us understand why the record is so deplorable?

Quite frankly, implementing such a proposal undermines America's competitiveness, economic opportunity, and domestic security.

When you hear about $3.86 billion in fraud, that affects every person in this country, not just the people who are applying for financial aid.

You are not dealing with your own money, you are dealing with somebody else's money, and I want the people in the Department to remember that every day.

I find it very, very frustrating when you say we can't have a program--I don't use an ATM card but the banks have ATM machines.