This really is a program about saving lives, good will for the United States.

I think I am a pretty well known person out here. Why, I can't imagine why you would do this?

But it can lead to compliance, and enforcement, and fines, and penalties.

But this is so indiscriminate. When you are out there just flying eastern Nebraska, this is so indiscriminate.

I put in an amendment that basically would have said, 'Hey, you cannot use any funding we give you for these kinds of aerial surveillance missions.'

It's not the cuts so much as the forced way of implementing them.

You are checking on everybody and it feels terrible. It feels like there is a Federal agency out there spying on American citizens.

It kind of sounds like this is a Federal Agency that is completely and totally out of control.

this sounds kind of wacky.

I have always preached that we should work with people.

Why is it so hard for EPA to just write me a letter, write my colleagues a letter, and say, 'This is what we're doing'? Why is that so difficult that my letter would be ignored for a year?

I cannot emphasize enough, Madam Secretary, how much I disagree with what you just said.

I certainly could not recall that EPA had made me aware of that.

To many people, this is going to sound downright creepy, to be honest with you.

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I fully support this request and ask my colleagues to do the same.

The amount of debt that we are loading on them is frightening.

I think that part of the budget gets worse and worse.

Believe me, Mr. Secretary, this isn't going to improve. I don't care who supports the healthcare act. The reality is it's going to get worse and worse and worse.

You can kind of see where I am headed. My concern is that you have got a whole host of old buildings out there.

In the fiscal year 2014 budget request, I note that there is funding for one--just one, across the entire country--major medical facility.

Mr. Chairman, thank you and thank you for calling this hearing on this budget request.

I do want to thank you for including that in the fiscal year 2014 budget request.

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