Senator Reed

I am just delighted and honored to be able to introduce Marisa Lago.

I think the President has chosen wisely, and I would hope that we could move this nomination expeditiously.

So much of the technology transfer there is off-the-shelf in commercial or not the traditional military platform.

I wonder, would you be considering sort of--or how do you deal with this other trade?

Thank you very much for that.

I just want to quickly turn the topic because we have focused on commercial enterprises, but there is a growing--this is not a surprise to anybody--concern among municipal governments and State governments about their pension liabilities.

We thank Senator Menendez and others who have cosponsored S. 1731.

One of the concerns would be--you are exactly right. They will not go out of business, but their only remedy then would be to essentially do what has been done to Mr. Gump and his colleagues which was to ratchet down payments or increase…

It seems to me again--and these might be isolated incidents--that there were occasions where companies who had taken over, the pension plan was on the books overfunded, and that money was not used for reinvestment in jobs or anything else.

$1 billion from the sale of warrants on TARP funds to the initial capitalization of the NHTF.

Are you confident that we have done everything we can to ensure that situation?

I introduced the concept of utilizing an open source approach to the Vista software...

The idea that you cannot deal with revenues is almost beyond logic and sanity.

I want to thank particularly Chairman Conrad for his leadership on this.

I would hope that the witnesses do not buy into the 2,000-page bill problem/concern.

An oasis.

I want to take a moment and express my appreciation to Senator Warner for having stepped up to this.