Do you think that it is appropriate for OMB to ask agencies to make 9 percent cuts, on average, without being willing to do the same?

This demonstrates its commitment to fiscal discipline and efficiency as it asks other agencies to make severe cuts.

Someone who negotiates with someone who is trying to kill themselves, someone who negotiates with somebody who is holding someone hostage, I hardly would describe them as something equal to a secretary or a taxicab dispatcher.

Any time we lose a life because we deny them medical health care is criminal.

Thank you. My time is up so I yield back.

We have to have a basic recipe that our States should follow.

I find these arguments unconvincing. I think there are messages that we send to our employees when we don't put forward transparent policies on how we are going to protect victims and how we are going to deal with whistleblowers and protect whistleblowers.

I hope that at some point, without disclosing specific information, that we could have a conversation around this issue, because it is an important issue not only to our Nation, but to the world.

I agree the Federal Government has to have minimum standards.

I am very concerned with the asset forfeiture account.

I prefer incentive-based, but I would also like to see what do those minimum standards look like.