Do you not agree that it is a massive expansion of entitlement spending?

I have to take strong exception with your testimony that a provision to support the public credit by assuring the first call on revenues goes to support the public credit is somehow unworkable.

In fact, the biggest expansion of entitlement spending up until that point since the Great Society, as I recall.

The issue I have raised is very simple. Why can the president's budget not be more like President Clinton's and a lot less like President Bush's?

Yosemite National Park is a national treasure that must be available for the American public to access and enjoy in the same manner that Americans have for decades.

The draft plan in question directly contravenes the authorization, and I am firmly against NPS taking any action that would limit public access and enjoyment of Yosemite.

Although hundreds of thousands of Japanese were killed by the deployment of these bombs, millions of Japanese and at least hundreds of thousands of American lives were saved by the deployment of these bombs.

Congress has acted. Congress has adopted a budget on schedule, but that process was supposed to begin with the president presenting one, and he did not.

I will continue to want to work with you as much as possible.

A year goes by, we hear the same testimony, and nothing happens.

I don't want to set up unrealistic timelines that are not going to be possible to be met.