Frankly, so are the taxpayers, because we spend money we do not have and we have to do our best efforts for our war fighters.

I think you said you were going to yield to our friends from the Army and the Air Force.

We should be doing as good a job with respect to managing our finances as well as we are in Dover in handling the airlift and other important duties.

Our ultimate goal here is not a clean financial statement audit. That is a symptom.

I think it is helpful and it is yet another reason why we have to turn these things on and try them rather than maybe build the perfect plan and only then confront it with the real world.

Oversight hearings are important because they really help to focus on what the issues are.

We could learn from other States what they are doing well or what they did not do well. We learn from their mistakes.

Better results for less money or at least better results for the same amount of money.

Keep holding us accountable.

There is no substitute for jumping in the pool. We are not going to learn to swim unless we do that.

I am grateful to him for his focus and interest in these issues and his staff.

These issues are even more personal and important to me.

Tech demo, I wanted to use that word today.

That is what I call being on message, and it is a good message to have.

None of them dealt with the clean financial audits statements or audited statements.

It is enormously helpful to be able to say to folks up and down the line in the different branches of our armed forces, the Secretary says we are going to get this done.

That is encouraging.

Given our budget situation, it is important, like you said, to stretch a dollar as far as we can.

I think it is just usually helpful to have the person at the top saying this is what one of our key goals and to hold people accountable.

I think the Secretary of Defense has provided that.

it is quiet in here. Tomorrow night, down at the other end of the Capitol, hopefully it won't be this quiet. The President is going to give a speech that is to be focused on the next steps of getting our economy moving and getting people…

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What we need here is not more process; what we need here is not to deal just with the symptoms of the problem.

There is not a bailout that is needed here, but in large part, what we need is to let the Postal Service act more like a business.

we may be just a few weeks away from the first-ever default of the Postal Service.