Dianne Feinstein actually said...

"So we would like the exascale strategic plan, which was due more than a year ago, by the end of this month."

"This is a legal decision, and we owe this money. It's not in the budget."

"So before we mark up the budget, and mark up our bill, I would like to know why funding was not requested for the next fiscal year 2014."

"It's almost as if there's a kind of ether over there, and projects just sort of float in the ether, and they don't really get any hands-on management."