our Nation continues to face an unemployment rate more than 8 percent, the longest stretch of high unemployment in this Nation since the Great Depression.

Do you understand that these rules, as we understand it, and they are being implemented, will kill American jobs, not create them?

This is not the time to abandon our commitment to the health of all Americans and to the NIH.

I believe it is a valuable addition to the Navy's fleet.

I believe it is time to stop deceptive budgeting.

That's a quantum breakthrough, isn't it?

But, basically, does it make us--you're in charge of it--make us more agile?

We do not want the only result of this change to be scientists spending more time chasing grants than making discoveries.

How big an improvement is this new system, the SM-3 IIB?

We are living in difficult times. America's gross debt has increased more than $5 trillion during President Obama's first 3 years in office.

I am disappointed that the administration has cut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Could you provide us with some more detail, if you have any yet, of which programs are being delayed, and why?