I read your testimony this morning, and I was very impressed.

There is no funding for schools. The Department of Defense says, 'Well, that's taken care of in the local infrastructure funding.'

Your involvement and engagement with the V.A. and encouraging them to have greater collaboration with the minority medical schools, specifically our AMHPS schools, has really gone a long way in terms of progress in our endeavors for full…

I have seen firsthand the importance of our defense communities.

I can't imagine a better priority than for the communities now left to provide educational services for soldiers, families, as they return from overseas.

That speaks a lot for people that control the atmosphere budget.

if the ocean dies, we die. Mankind cannot survive without the ocean, not just from feeding, but just from what the ocean does with carbon and so on.

we were asking for five million or billion, what is it, for the NOAA's--five billion for the NOAA budget and then in that, that the oceans get treated equally with the atmosphere.

My Truth in Accounting Act would require the President to consider these long-term shortfalls when he proposes his budget.

Thank you. The other question I have, which is related to a big question here, is that in the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, we specified that the FEMA administrator would lead the Nation's efforts to prepare for, protect…

I think you have got to charge in the room. You are a big guy, a former Army tank guy. You ought to just go in there and say, we are here.

Although Congress, I think, asked for it.