But if healthcare reform is enacted and I know that's not a certainty as we speak.

I believe the administration has made a commendable effort to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in healthcare programs.

I support the idea of trying to get to a point where we can go to real time.

We can do this a lot smarter. And I think we can save tens of billions of dollars every year by doing that.

I think my State has a good story to tell there. The numbers in my State are going in the right direction, but it has taken a lot of hard work at the local and State level.

We spend billions in disaster recovery and we probably do not spend as much as we should on preparedness.

I noticed that there has been a lot of violence around the border area--especially to the south of us, but certainly it is spilling over into the United States.

the administration believes that the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, the PTFP, at NTIA is no longer needed now that the digital transition is complete.

So in other words, you are paying more there but you are getting more space.

That is a great savings. I love that.

Okay. So, do you have a set of recommendations on how they should handle this?

Well, we could go on and on about this. I have several pages of questions and probably what I will do is submit a few to you all in writing along with some of the other senators who could not be here today.