Well, they are ready to go out there in the private sector, because they are setting up these electronic medical records as we speak.

I look forward to working with this Committee to make the vision of the President's FY 2012 Budget proposal a reality.

He speaks fluent Hebrew and fluent Arabic, not a shabby start for an Ambassador to Israel.

We have an extraordinary individual that I can commend to this committee because I know him very well.

This is one of the prouder moments that I have had to introduce a nominee to any of our committees.

In this new world in which we live the Foreign Service becomes all the more important.

What is it that you understand the NASA authorization law to require?

You've got to get up there, with humans and components. Who knows what the technology--by the time we're ready to go to Mars with humans, we might have new technology that takes us there in 39 days, instead of the 9 or 10 months, which…

You can imagine what would happen to our space program.

I hope that things like James Webb, our Mars missions, can do that kind of thing to our 12- and 13-year-olds today, because this country needs scientists and engineers and mathematicians in the future.

Can you provide us with a status report on the compliance with these requirements?