I think OMB can play a part here by putting our energy toward training and education and sharing best practices.

When you are running a budget deficit, in the last 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history, this year on track to our biggest budget deficit ever, and if we look forward to the next 10…

I think it needs to be a collaborative effort, and certainly we want to involve you and your staff in helping us think through how is it most useful to you.

I think certainly consulting with Congress in that process would be very important and valuable.

He has inherited an economic crisis that has required unprecedented international cooperation to jump-start the world's economies.

Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine.

The first State will become next year the last State to host a national park.

the President and the Congress can play vital roles in setting the tone at the top and communicating to agency leaders that performance matters.

Since coming into office, President Obama has faced--I think it is an understatement--a complicated set of challenges, both domestic and international.

From the work that you have done at GAO, could you provide us maybe with an example or two of how an agency was able to bring about better outcomes through the use of performance information?

What we are working on just down the hall in the next building is, I think, of historic consequence.