Tom Carper said...

But my hope is, on a serious note, my hope is that the issues we just discussed... we can keep at it today and see if we...

I am going to ask you to hold it right there. I have just been contacted by the Senate Finance Committee.

We need to strengthen the financial management functions of the Department, and that remains on GAO's High Risk List.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this and seeing if we can't ...