Mike Johanns actually said...

total discretionary spending is due to increase this year by about $1.4 billion--or in the next budget year, I should say.

I think that is good information to have. But I could be a Cabinet member and my team could be coming to me and saying, 'We are on budget. W...

One of my concerns is that, once the door opens, the temptation for other countries, other parts of the world, to squeeze that door further ...

I would want to know that. And if I did know that, I would be telling somebody, my committee of jurisdiction, the President himself, 'There ...