My concern is not so much that there be those adjustments, but that whatever is available is transparent to the public so they can get that list, so they know what they're buying, just as if they go out and buy a refrigerator they know…

One of the things that we talk about in that report is exactly what you both said about building a system that can deliver results.

I want to thank you for the work that you and everyone at the Department are doing and recognize the difficult challenge that you and everyone in government is facing right now as we look at the limited resources we have and the amount of…

I am pleased to see your enthusiasm for programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

I really wanted to just stay around this morning to, again, recognize and appreciate your support...

I commend the Department's efforts to accelerate critical improvements in our Nation's homeland security apparatus in the wake of the Christmas Day bomber's failed terrorist attack.

Your presentation around the world has been extraordinary and it's been very positive for us, for our Nation, to have you out there as our spokesperson, along with the President, of course.

I would hope that we're not going to have a policy in Washington that comes in and supersedes what has been carefully put together by the local folks in New Hampshire.

I think it's important, and what I'm hoping you're going to tell me is that you appreciate the differences between our forests in the East and the forests in the West.

I hope and I appreciate the leadership that you are providing to say to those countries in the Balkans that if they can achieve the alliance's criteria, they will be welcomed as members of NATO.

I was concerned, in talking to folks--the staff at the White Mountain National Forest--to learn that their actual funding for last year was down 15 percent.

Those of us who've had a chance to travel to some more severe regions in this world, such as Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, of course Iraq, recognize that the men and women who serve us in the State Department are on the frontlines and…

I think it's very important that we integrate women's issues, this commitment to empowering women, more fully into all of our foreign policy.

I had the opportunity to visit Kosovo in February of 2010 on their Independence Day.

The settlement negotiated between the FTC and Fairbanks Capital Corp. was appropriate given the under-capitalization condition of Fairbanks Capital at the time.

Thank you, and we appreciate that we are now over the hump in terms of getting the ARRA money out.

I think we are all very excited that you are at the Department of Energy. It is really encouraging to see some of the steps that are being taken.

We think is important so that we make use of biomass for both.