Thank you, Chairman. And I agree with Mr. Davis; this is a good panel to have before us.

I would just think that, when you look at that, and you are looking for a really good return on the investment, we are talking about building a stronger society, and you only can do it through building stronger families, which will result…

You can only spend a dollar once, so you want to make sure it is spent the right way.

That is my main concern, because I think too often we continue to spend money on programs that aren't effective.

It comes down to dollars and cents. You can't wave a magic wand and make this money appear.

If we are not going to have serious entitlement reform, where is it going to come from? It is simple math.

There is just no other way to do it.

Now, as I read this, it looks like an open-ended discussion, but with no real specifics.

We can talk in flowery terms about what we want, what our hearts are willing to do, but what our wallets can't provide.

The Government works for you. You have to switch that around and understand the revenue comes from hard-working American taxpayers.

If you are telling me that you come up with 22,000-some cases and they accepted 100, that has to be very frustrating for the people that are out there doing that work.

We are on a trajectory that doesn't look good.

What else can you do? Because it seems to me, in a country that leads the world in technology and being able to derive tendencies.

But that is something we could help you with, right?

But in my life and in what I have done for a living up until the last 3 years, it is employers and employees paying in together into this fund.

throwing money at a problem isn't the answer. We have to get more bang for the bucks.

Whenever employers and employees put this money into this fund--this isn't government-funded, this is wage-tax funded.

I would think, though, for us, for both sides, if we would help you, if we would put more teeth into these things, it would help you to win.

If the time doesn't fit the crime, I mean, what is the reason for not doing it?

The most frequent question that has been asked about the Aaron Alexis incident is how this young man could have received a security clearance in 2008.

I have no idea where this came from. I also wonder how it will impact overtime pay.

Getting Americans working again, or at least restoring the number of hours they used to be able to work, should not be a partisan issue.

This is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. This is an American worker issue.

I hope today we can move past the denials that this law does not have an effect on jobs.

When Mr. Hoffa jumps on this and says you are destroying the backbone of the American middle class, then there is a concern.