I thank the Senator from Texas for his thoughtful comments. When I was Governor, and long before that, and certainly in the Senate, I have liked to focus on underlying causes, not just the symptoms or problems but how do we solve the…

I think the more we can provide opportunities for competition and for students to have the availability of online and other sorts of new services, I think that will begin to ratchet down costs and I think give people the kind of options…

What you need to do is look at the billions of dollars that we give directly to colleges and universities, over $10 billion a year, and say, here are our priorities, here are our standards.

I can say with some certainty that my wife and I understand that the cost of higher education has risen quite a bit, although this report is in the media this week that suggests maybe not as much as we had thought.

We do not create jobs. We help create a nurturing environment for job creation and job preservation.

When you are spending billions and billions of dollars, and the government is not even telling gifted young people like Amber Lee, an Oregonian who is doing everything right, what the possible tools are in this education toolkit, something…

I think basically the status quo is not working. We have been pouring more money, pouring in more spending, more tax benefits, and, as you have experienced firsthand, tuition is going up and up.

Colleges should be accountable for their graduation rates and how much debt they are putting their students in.

My recollection is this is something that Senator Akaka was very much interested in and focused on when he was with us.

clearly south Florida particularly is dealing today with sea level rise as it impacts both saltwater intrusion on our coastal areas, impacts our drinking water, draining systems that are critical to the overall well being of many of the…

We should all know we must take action to reduce harmful carbon pollution, which 97 percent of scientists agree is leading to dangerous climate change that threatens our families.

The inventory was not good. It has significant limitations as a tool for decisionmakers.

We cut the size of government. I think we ended up in 2000 with fewer Federal employees than we had had in a long time. I think that was a goal.

I am proud that our landmark environmental laws were created with an overwhelming bipartisan consensus, and it saddens me that protecting the environment at the Federal level has become a partisan issue.

It is in America's DNA to turn a problem into an opportunity, and that is what we have done by being a pioneer in the green technology industry.

The American people understand the threats posed by climate change, and they want action.

What would be 'fairly often'? Every year or two?

What about the other 2,300?

How do the safeguards that have been described here this morning, how do they compare with safeguards that are in place in other countries around the world?

Give us just a flavor for how it was changed.

Let us go back to those radiography cameras.

OK. Maybe one more question, and then we will wrap up.

Are we aware of any effort to actually mount an attack using a dirty bomb in this country or another country?

Did you say the regulation had been updated recently?

Our job in this Committee is to do oversight.