We clearly need change.

We have to stop just bemoaning the recalls, and we have to act now.

Has the administration been coming in, every year, asking for more resources to fix these things?

One of the obvious changes would be if folks are leaving or go on extended leave, you know you are giving this benefit.

Is my math correct?

Of these program controls would you list--do you have a sense of what are the key ones that each and every agency should implement in order to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in the program?

Gentlemen, some discussion--and by the way, in essence this is free money.

Like the Chairman, I would be interested to look on the private side to see what the scope of this is.

Here is just a last thought. I remember, I was a prosecutor for many years and I remember when Mayor Giuliani was Mayor of New York.

They should be angry that the federal government is putting money in pockets of folks thumbing their nose at the rest of us and not paying their tax obligations.

We will put more American soldiers in the crosshairs of sectarian violence, create more targets. I just don't believe this makes sense.

Well, I think he's pretty clear about his message. I would like to meet him one day and sort of talk to him.

We can't say that we are going to be intolerant, when that's what the terrorists say.

I can't claim that I was surprised. But, you know, the fact is, is that people are going to express various points of view. You know, I just keep saying that we have got to come together as a country, and that diversity is a great strength…

You didn't provide the leadership. Even -- even with structural infirmities, strong leadership can overcome that. And, clearly, that wasn't the case here.

I really think that we have to do this outside the kind of intensive partisan political atmosphere that we are in now.

What is at stake here is clearly the credibility of the institution, and credibility is the foundation upon which the institution is built.

We know from the Declaration of Independence, our government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.