Max Miller

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

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.

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.

My concern is--as your statement here last year and Chairman Bernanke's is the government is probably going to end up being there, and that is a huge concern if we don't define some role and purpose for them.

Fannie and Freddie made some horrible, horrible mistakes, but in 2008 the default rate for the jumbo marketplace was greater than Freddie and Fannie's even.

We certainly welcome the development of bipartisan housing finance reform legislation.

A perception continues to persist in the markets that some companies remain too big to fail, posing an ongoing threat to the financial system.

The evidence is mixed whether market participants, specifically lenders to bank holding companies, nonetheless provide any funding advantage to the biggest financial companies based on some belief that the Government would bail them out if…

The problem we have in government is we go before the voters every 2 years and we say, 'Trust us, elect us.'

Oh, the actual percentage. My understanding of how the rules got set up is that clinicians came together and sort of looked at what types of patients needed to be in these types of facilities and struck a rule.

Move away from that, but also remember those rules. It is not that each and every patient has to meet that criteria; 60 percent of the patients have to meet that criteria.

I think Jon was saying and I think the Commission would agree, if you could get to a more bundled payment, either on an episode basis or a population basis, you could step back from these rules, have the provider decide what the actual mix…

I think what both of us have been saying is, you know, like your 3-day rule question and the 75 percent rule, or 60 percent rule, whichever it is at the moment, these are all things that, you know, we as Congress and Jon as CMS have to put…

We are all living with financial hardships.

Ms. Miller, you said that there was enough funds that had been paid into the Pension Guaranty Fund to adequately compensate the affected salaried employees whose pensions were denied.

The Army is concerned with the growing demand on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competencies, the global competitiveness for STEM talent, and the unbalanced representation of our nation's demographics in STEM…

The expansion of the Section 219 authority that included minor military construction as one of the acceptable categories of use has allowed the laboratories to fund 27 projects related to their core competencies across six laboratories.

The Army has a concerted effort in support of historically black colleges and universities and minority serving institutions HBCU/MSIs.

We have been investing in technologies to do affordable missiles that can go out and intercept RAMs.

A lot of the stuff in the Prevention and Public Health Fund is a little bit more on the exotic side.

The Administration apparently has broader priorities which look more at 2014 than what people are going through in 2013.

Thank you for your support of DARPA, and for allowing me to testify before you today.

Over the course of these past 12 years of war, the world has seen firsthand the value and impact that technology brings to the battlefield.