Paul Broun

The topic of cybersecurity is certainly hot these days.

We are wasting billions of taxpayers' dollars in doing so.

We are not doing our job to keep America safe.

We are wasting billions of taxpayers' dollars. We are giving them a false sense of security.

We have got to focus on terrorists, instead of focusing on objects.

In fact, in my opening statement I congratulated or said that ARPA-E is supporting a lot of projects that are clearly aligned.

I want to ask you to put your hatchet down because the report was actually meant to supplement and not to refute the working papers.

ARPA-E is supposed to fund projects that the private sector will not and cannot fund.

I think it is inappropriate.

I think overall it has been an abject failure and the metrics I use for determining that is we were promised by the President that if we passed this stimulus bill... our unemployment rate would not go above eight percent and it has…

You can't pour almost a trillion dollars into the economy without having some positive effects.

Although there is certainly enough oversight work to go around, I am pleased to hear that a positive theme has developed as well.

We were promised by the President that if we passed this stimulus bill... our unemployment rate would not go above eight percent.

I think overall it has been an abject failure.

I think on the performance metrics, that is an area that was not stressed in the Recovery Act.

Okay. Mr. Friedman, do you have any comment? Can you answer that?

I would like to remind my friend from New York there is a huge difference between Southern Company and Solyndra.

I respectfully disagree with my friend from New York about the success of the Stimulus Act.

Okay. What is the current status of the billion dollars in stimulus funding?

So the answer is no.

Monitoring this funding is proving to be a daunting task for agencies and watchdogs.

Now that funding has been obligated, and recipients are actually spending the money, it is important for this Subcommittee to take a step back and see if we can develop any lessons learned, any best practices, or identify any areas of…

Good morning. Welcome to the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee hearing titled 'Stimulus Oversight: An Update on Accountability, Transparency, and Performance.'

Well, Secretary, I disagree with you on that regard.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed and is in the process of enacting regulations targeting traditional, inexpensive sources of energy.