I am all for efficiency, but you also need some redundancy in the system in case one location goes down.

I just hope you will look at the Conway issue.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I want to thank our witnesses for being here today. We appreciate your service.

I will speak in morning business for 10 minutes or less. Let me talk about a couple things this morning. First, I wish to talk about something my State has been going through since mid-March and has continued to the present day. We have…

Do you believe advances in personalized medicine could be threatened should the Congress enact cuts to the NIH's budget?

The Federal Government is not known for being nimble, and IT would be a good example of where it needs to become much more nimble because IT changes so quickly.

When I look at an agency that does very important work, like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), ... it just seems that when they do a contract, it takes so long and it is so expensive.

I used to serve on the Armed Services Committee and periodically the military would issue a bid of some sort and then change the requirements midway through the process.

I am a big believer, though, of reviewing what is currently there and beginning to pare back and to try to focus on core responsibilities.

I think it is something that is worth fuller discussion, so I appreciate your thoughts on that.

When they sat down with the Department of Defense, they asked the DOD how many contracts they had and they could not answer that question.

It seems to me that also something we have not talked a lot about today is the local media, especially the local TV stations in our State.