You get a prize for coming the furthest to today's hearing.

Senator Carper and I have prepared legislation that would provide strict national limits on sulfur, nitrogen and mercury emissions from power plants.

Ten percent of the funds from the auctioning of carbon emissions allowances would go into a pot, and that pot would fund low emission transportation improvements like bikeways and sidewalks.

a plane that we have been building all these years, its mission-capable rate is down around 50 percent, where we spend, I think, about $40,000 per flight hour for the aircraft that has never flown a single mission in Iraq or Afghanistan…

Unless you are keeping score, you are just practicing.

This is important stuff, and we are going to do better. We have got to do better as a Nation and as a government.

Those are just a few of the exceptional challenges that our country, including our government, needs to be prepared to address.

Say that one more time.

That is a good story. Thank you.

I am optimistic. There is a lot of good stuff in place.

GAO has previously recommended that OMB should work with agencies to ensure they are making adequate investments in training on performance planning and measurements.