John Boozman

I think it is important for us to get that heavy lift capability just as quickly as we can.

Learning more about asteroids is in everybody's interest.

I wish the entire crew of the Shuttle and those already aboard the Space Station success in carrying out this very important mission.

I am grateful that the Ranking Member of the full Committee, Senator Hutchison, is with us today.

The point is, it's so easy to obtain these things fraudulently.

We've spent all this money, and right now--up to now, what we have is less secure than a driver's license.

We do need to work with him, with the administration, and others, to somehow call a halt to spending hundreds of millions of dollars and still, 10 years later, not having a secure ID.

The results of this GAO study are troubling, including the multiple breaches at facilities by investigators using fraudulent and/or counterfeit TWIC cards.

I hope that the Administration will express support for the biomass definition used in the 2008 Farm bill.

I think at some point we really need to have DOD in the room with these folks in the sense of again, like with the TAP program, I mean, that is a joint effort.

I really feel like that the TAP needs to be done early.

Our employers are doing a tremendous job.

It is very important to my State and really just in the Nation in general in the sense that we certainly need the resources that it engenders.

We cannot afford to let current projects go unfinished, yet we face a major obstacle of how to fund these initiatives.

Just very quickly, I notice that you, in your budget, you include $50 million, a $40 million increase on comprehensive levee safety, the levee safety initiative, which is really a big deal in the sense of, in many parts of the country.

I think all of us agree that the teapot museums, things like that, in the climate that we are in now, we have to be so frugal with the taxpayers' money.

You cannot buy locally in Arkansas because zero percent qualifies.

I agree, Senator Boxer, that one of my companies is Wal-Mart in Arkansas and they have done a tremendous job.

The LEED rating system discriminates against the use of most American wood products.

I would argue that certainly wood is very environmentally friendly, it stores carbon.

I agree, and I think again the sharing of data and, as you say, we are in a Facebook age that does make that so much easier.

Thank you. I don't want to get gaveled on, but I think the point that you make about coordination is a good one.

Admiral Mullen testified a couple of months ago that our greatest threat to national security wasn't al Qaeda or Afghanistan or any of those threats, but was the debt.

I think the concern is, is that with a proposed one and a half trillion dollar deficit that over a period of 10 years, one and a half trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, that an additional $13 trillion debt after 10 years…

I wish we could turn you loose on the government agencies so the DOD and VA would have the same interoperability.