I guess one of my concerns is last year during the budget negotiation or the appropriation negotiations on this bill my argument was now is not the time to drop out of this and withdraw our funding from it and we need to see how these…

I think states, as I said, might be looking, or some states anyway, might be looking at it as a way of getting additional revenue.

I can put on the record we have the smallest NASA center in the country.

We shouldn't de-emphasize those because of the current situation that we are in.

I agree that an all-of-the-above approach should fund research in new energy sources, but we also need to ensure that we are efficiently and effectively using our existing sources.

The real goal of the Department of Energy and really the Nation as a whole, I think, is to have a well-diversified portfolio of energy resources.

At what stage does it require Commission approval?

Having the workforce in the future is going to be a big issue.

Because there are going to be efforts to defund it essentially in this appropriations cycle, I am pretty sure. Would that be a mistake?

When you put together your budget, do you do an analysis of the potential impact on jobs at the various sites?

That was hard coming out, wasn't it? President Bush.

Why does the request specifically target students in radiochemistry instead of what the committee has been trying to do?

Well, it is interesting to note that when sequestration was the law of the land and we were trying to write budgets to sequestration numbers before the Murray-Ryan budget deal, one of the things you all touted that would be impacted would…

Do you support TRIO?

Ralph Regula used to call it 'the people's committee' because it affects so many people, and programs in it are very important.

It is still important we focus on the fact that we are in debt and that we have got to address that.

I agree with my colleagues here who have suggested that sequestration is going to be devastating.

In fiscal year 2015, the Department completely mishandled the TRIO Student Support Services competition.

I look forward to working with you on it. Thank you.

NIH is, for good or bad, the best kept secret in Washington, D.C., and the American people need to know what happens out there.

There are also alcohol problems that occur just on the border of the reservation when somebody sets up a community there and that causes problems.

this wasn't imposed by God. He didn't say if you spend money in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, you have got to take it out of this.

I am also concerned about the police protection and so forth on reservations, or the lack thereof and the incredible distance that area that tribes have within reservations and with very few officers and the danger that that causes and the…

I appreciate your employees out in Region 10; Dennis McClaren is doing a great job.

Well, I am not sure you would find anybody that really likes sequestration but somehow we find ourselves here, which is kind of bizarre.