I would have liked to have been there for that.

I think that is one of the fundamental reasons why you are seeing a significant reduction in the use of award-fee contracts in the Department of Defense.

Why do you think the Department of Defense has actually made rather remarkable improvement, not perfect but a remarkable turnaround?

we are on track this year to run the biggest single-year budget deficit we have ever run.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not send a witness today to our second panel, and I am disappointed with that.

Then I think beyond that, one Department of Homeland Security official gave a contractor an award fee despite saying the contractor's actions were egregious and 'wasted taxpayer money.'

I have a lot of confidence in OMB that they will get it right.

I talked to one of my colleagues the other day, and we talked about how over the last 8 years we have increased our Nation's debt by, I think, more than we actually increased it in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.

I think OMB's guidance, again, hits many of the key things, but what our work has shown, even this most recent report, is that the word has not gotten down to everyone throughout all the different agencies.

I am confident that if we use market-based mechanisms, rather than traditional command and control approaches, we can incent the environmental outcomes that we need while keep our industries strong.

I believe there will soon be a time when tackling water quality issues and implementing the solutions seem perfunctory.