The Commission has been on record as saying that, you know, the sequester is not a good policy.

Obviously, I believe it is very important for the Army to have robust funding in our air and missile defense capabilities

We do have a concern, though, that sequestration could have, in the future, negative impacts, and we look forward to any support that you could provide to mitigate or eliminate sequestration.

Yes, the infrastructure itself does need some pretty deep renovations, and it does--it is highly inadequate.

I think that could be very short-sighted by the nation.

One of the priority issues must be security and how you can secure all of your facilities here.

I think that optimally the space program will begin really ratcheting back up at some point.

I could not agree with you more. This has been a priority of the Treasury since the day I arrived, to make sure that we are planning for a safe and stable housing finance system.

From his first day in office, Secretary Lew stressed the importance of finishing work on the Volcker Rule.

We have made considerable progress toward achieving those objectives through implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

I do not think we have ended the perception of too-big-to-fail, but I think we have gone a long way to ending too-big-to-fail with the regulations.