Getting our budget deficit under control is not going to be an easy task. It will require tough choices and discipline.

The idea of post-payment review and recovery audits are all sensible approaches, but one of the things that we are not doing is payment reform.

Would you say that number again, that last sentence.

Senator Coburn and I worked on changes to the Improper Payments Act.

Thank you for that excellent testimony.

I think the key for us in looking at these contractors is--I have difficulties with the bounty issue once again

Thank you so much. Ms. Taylor, you are recognized.

the demonstration project has been seen by many, including by me, as a real success

Let us make sure FEMA has not put limitations on itself that the law did not intend.

I think there is a necessity to try to align the agency and the work that you all do with the law.

I think too often we try to take our programs and build up to a number, not really having an expectation that the number may be so large that the process will not get us where we need to go.

If we are to have a robust national drug control strategy, we must not cut the resources available for these efforts.

The Byrne-JAG assistance grant should be funded at full strength of $1.1 billion as originally recommended by the Senate.

We need leaders like you who can build alliances.

In too many respects, opportunities for progress on clean air have largely been squandered over the last 8 years.

If the policies pursued are not pursued with great care and restraint, this great machine we call America will grind to a halt.

In Delaware, we think of Connecticut as a big State.

I hope that you will approach pending decisions on greenhouse gas regulation with great care.

There is a lot of legislation we want to move while I have this gavel in my hands.

You will need to implement vital air toxic risk rules that have been shelved or unfunded by the last Administration.

They have a need to establish Federal leadership on climate.

I hope it is going to be a cap and trade bill, I hope it is a bipartisan bill at the end of the day.

Is it the panacea we see out there? Probably not.

I understand Coskata has the ability to, or they think they have the technology that allows them to take garbage, allows them to take old tires, and turn it into a biofuels.

I think under the early bird rule, I believe, unless Madam Chair, you need to flee, to head out.