Thanks very much, and when we get to the Q&A, I am going to be asking you--you talked about the declining awarding of award-fee contracts over the last couple of years, and one of the questions I will be asking you is: Is there anything…

Do they have a Chief Procurement Officer at HHS?

Part of our job is to provide oversight.

My guess is that somebody at DOD a couple of years ago... said, if we are going to run this agency the right way, we have got to do something about these award fees.

That is a great coincidence.

I am glad that Senator Cardin is holding this important hearing today.

Those of us who live in the DelMarVa Peninsula and the Mid-Atlantic Region... we appreciate everything that you can do there.

The idea is to take about 15 percent of the nutrients from the poultry houses, take them to this facility, treat them under high temperature, create a pelletized organic fertilizer.

We believe that, you know, now is the time to readjust sails and find those kinds of market-based economic solutions.

We would reduce the sulfur dioxide emissions by some 80 percent by 2015 and mercury emissions by some 90 percent by 2015.

As your neighbor to the east, we want to be your partner in getting us to a cleaner, healthier Chesapeake Bay.