I think the report confirms ESPCs and UESCs are a sound strategy.

I would be happy to work with you in any way to try to help the Senate and Congress overall to try to implement all of the recommendations from your high risk list.

Recent policy and funding decisions are being considered within a challenging fiscal climate, making CBO's cost estimates, budget projections, and economic forecasts especially important.

You are all institutionalists. You keep us safe. You keep the place running.

I certainly don't want to see us using taxpayer dollars to have to do environmental mitigation on land that we went out of our way to acquire.

However, I would say that there is an upside to maturity and that we have been doing this for a number of years.

The funding we provide to the Capitol Police, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Secretary of the Senate makes sure that the American people have safe and reliable access to our buildings, our proceedings, and our records.

Access to mental health services remain a tremendous challenge, particularly in rural areas.

I find these increases to be totally reasonable, but not fundable unless we deal with the sequester.

Thank you, Chair Capito.

I will just add, finally on this issue, you have the general trepidation that a lot of veterans have in terms of availing themselves of services at VA, but you also have the special challenges of the stigmatizations of mental health…

Well, can I just ask a question? There are several questions.

CBO and GAO play a vital role in supporting the Congress' legislative and oversight responsibilities by providing objective and authoritative information to the Congress.

But there would be fewer officers on patrol, less money for training, if any money for training.

If most of the savings occur outside of the scoring window, it becomes a policy and an appropriations question.

I think it's important in the digital age to remember that books matter, libraries matter.

We have a policy, obviously, that precludes folks from not paying full time and attention to their duties while they are on their posts.

Funding for the Library of Congress... supports the subject-matter experts and library scientists who curate and preserve American creativity and scholarship.

I support and many others support adjusting those caps to a more responsible level.

What I think would suffer would be innovation.

I would just ask you to stay nimble on this one because we're obviously nowhere near having built out all 93 acres.

I look forward to working with our two agencies today and throughout the year to ensure that both have the resources needed to fulfill your responsibilities.

What about the expenditure side? Am I misunderstanding what an energy savings performance contract is?

I really want to say that you both represent the best in public service.

But does the expertise, is it the same set of knowledge and expertise and all the rest of it on the Library side?