Tom Carper

I strongly believe that an accurate count will level the playing field and will bring our community much closer to the American dream.

As this outbreak continues to grow, and with the vaccination programs that are being rolled out in all of our communities across the country, we have been seeing an immense amount of misinformation surrounding not only the vaccinations but…

One of the things I am very proud of that is going on in my State--and my guess is it is going on in your States and other States as well--is trying to find new ways to develop vaccines using things like tobacco plants in order to derive…

In my State, every high school has a wellness center. And we are very proud of that.

We look forward to welcoming Secretary Duncan to the First State next Tuesday morning with Race to the Top.

I love the way you are collaborating.

What do we need to be doing on the legislative side? Anything?

I think a lot of what we would love to talk with you about going forward is very much to look forward, how to do that.

There is a lot of money at stake here and they have the ability to do it without going into a bank and robbing the bank.

We are moving to a more competitive international environment.

This has to be a team effort, so I think there are many agencies.

FISMA is not working very well now, and any steps along the lines of the legislation that can focus the effort to improve security on real threats rather than moving paper would be useful.

Thank you. Mr. Paller, before you answer, let me just say, in our business, as Senator Collins and Senator Burris know, we are always reminded to be on message.

Thank you for your testimony today and your responses to our questions.

For that nation to be so anxious to be able to infiltrate our systems and, potentially, to undermine our systems.

I think the bill is exactly right. It creates leadership. It moves to better metrics.

I am intrigued by other nations that are hacking into our system.

I think there is probably a pretty good chance that we will be pushing for a similar kind of approach on the Census Director.

There is a reluctance to lean on contractors, and sometimes the government is flying blind.

I think maybe that sort of--the way that we bring people into leadership positions for a relatively short period of time, a year or two, they are gone, we have vacancies, sometimes for extended periods of time before we fill them again.

I do not know if you have the opportunity to do turnover.

I believe the Federal Government does need to lead by example.

We do not want the government to make rash decisions without first thinking things through.

Is that something you could see us doing in the Federal Government with this Administration?

I applaud the President's early commitment, including during his time in this body, to use technology to make government more transparent and more effective.