No kidding. Your daughter?

I think we are fortunate to have a couple of members of this panel who have actually been auditors for their State, Attorney Generals for their State, and the expertise that you bring to the Senate is very much appreciated and valued.

I have also heard over time that a fourth criteria would be to have folks at the agency who are capable of effectively monitoring the work of contractors and evaluating that work.

Part of our job is to provide oversight.

Thanks very much, and when we get to the Q&A, I am going to be asking you--you talked about the declining awarding of award-fee contracts over the last couple of years, and one of the questions I will be asking you is: Is there anything…

Do they have a Chief Procurement Officer at HHS?

we are on track this year to run the biggest single-year budget deficit we have ever run.

I think we do need to be careful that we are not creating more work on already a stressed workforce.

Thank you for saying that. I welcome that comment.

We have had the hearings in this room before in talking about, among other things, cost overruns in IT projects.

Why do you think the Department of Defense has actually made rather remarkable improvement, not perfect but a remarkable turnaround?

I would have liked to have been there for that.

I talked to one of my colleagues the other day, and we talked about how over the last 8 years we have increased our Nation's debt by, I think, more than we actually increased it in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.

The Department of Health and Human Services did not send a witness today to our second panel, and I am disappointed with that.

That is a great coincidence.

We need more nuclear. We need more clean coal. We need more solar, we need more wind, we need to create more biofuels.

We need to provide the leadership.

Some of my friends like to talk about putting a tax on carbon. I do not think there are a lot of people who are going to vote for that.

The Chinese are actually well ahead of us in terms of energy efficiency for the cars they are putting out on the road.

If we are smart about putting together a piece of legislation that not only addresses security concerns that flow out of climate change...

God, it is great to be back because this is the best Nation on earth. It is the shining city on the hill. We can and must lead.

I think we would all acknowledge that we need every country, especially the major emitters, to begin reducing their emissions.

I just want to say to our Governors, as a recovering Governor, welcome.

In 1975, we passed the first CAFE legislation.

I think this is something that we should be utilizing in all of the developments of offshore wind.