I think we ought to underline some points before we wrap this up and I go start voting.

It is our responsibility in Congress and in the Administration to ensure that all this money is spent as intended and that, at the end of the day, we see real results.

I personally was very gratified to hear the line of questioning that went along the lines of internal controls.

this is testimony to essentially congressional oversight.

I often like when I get to the end of hearing, sometimes I will ask the panelists to kind of reflect back on what has been said.

Judge us not based on the structure of that Council. Judge us on whether we are both actively engaging stakeholders.

The way we talked about it, just to share with you, we consider the use of data and leveraging the information age in new and effective ways as the major game changer in the area of improper payments.

I think that is an enormously positive development and we are hoping that it continues.

I appreciate you all being here and for this conversation today and the work that Senator Lautenberg and certainly Senator Inhofe and others have done on this issue.

Leadership has been the key.

They need not just to cut, cut, cut. They need to find ways to get better results for less money.

Would you have it be done over the Internet?

I used to describe the States as 50 laboratories of democracy.

I like to tell the story about listening on my way from my home to the train station last fall.

So everybody pretty much agrees on that?

One of the things we need to do is to look in every nook and cranny of the Federal Government and try to find ways to do everything we do, to ask the question, is there a way to get a better result for less money?

He never used a note.

I have jurisdiction in another Subcommittee that deals with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and for a number of years, consecutive years, they have been at the top of the charts in terms of a place where people like to work.

We cannot just take all the data that is collected by the Federal Government and have a data dump to the American public.

You are, as the Chairman has noted, a faithful attender and a faithful participant, and I certainly commend you for that.

Indecision is deadly, I think, in an environment like this.

You could not run the country without the decennial census.

We also like to say transparency is the best disinfectant, and the idea of exposing as much of what we do, good and bad, will help us, I think for the most part, do a better job.

We have never had that discussion politically.

If the American Community Survey is de-funded or made voluntary, how would these changes impact planning, designing, and executing the next decennial census?