However, about 70 percent of the oil that we consume in the U.S. comes from other countries, some of which are undemocratic, unstable.

Our country, I am told, accounts for more than 20 percent of global oil consumption.

The BP oil spill is evidence of the environmental and the economic consequence, an impact of our oil dependence.

If we were to restore earmarks in that limited way with a lot of transparency, the idea of having the legislation before us, actually signed into law, I think would be helpful in an earmarks restored world.

The last President, this President, current Secretary of Defense said, 'Why don't we stop buying more C-17s?'

Thank you. I have used this analogy before, I think, in this Subcommittee or in this Committee, and in our experience in Delaware, we had something akin to earmarks.

I disagree with this President on the second engine, by the way, the so-called second engine on our new fighter plane.

Good questions. Thank you, Senator, thanks very much.

We need only ask our friends in Greece and in Ireland about that.

At some point, we will be hit by a fiscal crisis as credit markets lose face in the U.S. political system's ability to fix the problem.

We really have to figure out how we are going to get better results for less money in this new time of fiscal constraint.