I hope you will not leave here discouraged. I hope you will leave here encouraged, both of you.

We are not in this by ourselves. It is not just the Federal Government. It is not just State or local government. It is just government. We are all in this together, so that is good.

If a program is not working, we should not just keep throwing good money after bad.

We should do a top-to-bottom review of the Department and try to figure out how we go about reauthorizing the Department.

I like to say that everything I do, I know I can do better.

I think we have just a renewed spirit of cooperation and collegiality. I hope it extends beyond this week, and I am encouraged that it will.

I think we need to bring that type of dedication, those types of private sector disciplines to government.

I was down along the border of U.S. and Mexico in Arizona with Senator McCain.

We are in this together, and we need to be able to work together.

I would just urge that there be a good exchange of information between your staff as you staff up and the work that has been done by his investigators.

The only people that do not make mistakes are the people that do not do anything.

What can we be doing at the Federal level to make the rest of this team, including State and local governments, including emergency responders, including insurers, what can we do, what should we be doing in addition to what we have already…

In each disaster we learn something new.

Thank you again for the opportunity to testify today. I look forward to answering any questions you may have.

How do we measure success? Is it the number of folks we apprehend trying to get into the country illegally?

Dr. Gilfillan, thank you so much for assuming these responsibilities for our country. The work that you are doing, the work at the Innovation Center, is just so important.

I remain concerned with the restrictive trade practices that particularly our poultry and other products face in that country which remove opportunities for market access in a growing economy of, I think, about 1.2 billion people.

A third area is research and development, R&D, that can be commercialized and lead to the development of products, goods, and services that we can sell all over the world.

I think the people of the country are looking at us and are asking maybe three questions: (1) can they--that is, us-- govern; (2) can we in our country be fiscally responsible again; and (3) can we provide certainty with respect to our tax…

Is it correct to say that, as you look to begin negotiations on the other side, on this side of the ocean, this side of the country, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, that everything, including agricultural barriers…

One of those is to try to invest a little money in workforce development, workforce skills, especially the STEM skills: science, technology, engineering, and math.

The second area the President has called for investing in is infrastructure, broadly defined--not just roads, highways, bridges, but infrastructure broadly defined.

Additionally, the U.S. bio-pharmaceutical industry has had several patents disregarded, just disregarded, due to inappropriate use of compulsory licensing and patent revocation.

Well, I actually already started giving it to them again.

It was his decision to be able to make that.