We're looking at a 1.4-trillion-dollar deficit, followed by a 1.3-trillion-dollar deficit.

What I desire from you all as much as possible, is information that will help me determine why spending has to be cut in order to save our federal government from an insolvency and bankruptcy.

Well, until I get something to the contrary, I'm going to infer from the silence, or the answering different questions, that there are no known profitable businesses so far of the 46.

Is 2013 when we should, as a Committee, start being in a position where we can sincerely evaluate at least the 46 startups from 2011?

I'm not sure there are going to be very many Americans around the country that are satisfied with a 90-percent failure rate and a 10-percent success rate.

It is one thing to be involved in basic science... It is another thing, though, for the federal government to go past the basic science and to start getting into the free enterprise system.

We had a serious philosophical battle between socialism on the one hand... and free enterprise on the other end.

I'm asking, again, if anyone can answer the question as to whether any of the 46 of these startups have been successful?

We have to have results if we're going to be able to justify this program long-term.

I'm going to try to reduce this to a general sense again.

To the extent the federal government is the determiner of who is successful and who fails, then you have politicians that are making those decisions.