I appreciate it. I have gone over my time, which I was doing happily and willingly because I was at the end of the line here.

Every 2 years it can.

the Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go.

Do we presently have an authority in government that can oversee the dynamic process of engagement?

With your chairmanship and the leader's Cabinet position, we are on the road to healthcare reform, I believe.

This discussion matters a great deal not just to CBO economists and Senators on the Budget Committee.

Not likely to happen now.

I applaud the more honest picture that this budget presents.

It strikes me that the problem here is that in order to achieve those large reductions, a considerable amount of executive management, of experimentation, of flexible and dynamic regulatory activity going forward is going to be necessary.

How in the world can we allow, in the year 2009, for us to say, that is just the way life is?

George Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written recently that there is $1 trillion a year of excess cost in our health care system, and he is no fool, is he?

I think we are headed into, I think, a fiscal crisis that is going to make the current economic problem look like a picnic.

We have three major significant problems to deal with. We have one supply of political capital to deal with them.

It appears that we all agree with the need for a significant stimulus and soon.

In early 2008, Chairman Reed very appropriately wrote the accounting standard setters citing concerns about the accounting standards for off balance sheet debt.

Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, perhaps even capture, and was not…

A nation eager for change in Iraq heard the President speak about his plans for the future. But, once again, the president failed to provide either a plan to successfully end the war or a convincing rationale to continue it.

I have seen reports, news reports, that were broadcast by al Zawahiri, that basically suggested that, they see us as being trapped in Iraq.