I know your country desperately needs medical professionals, and we are stealing them away.

OPM has not appeared before our subcommittee since 1997.

We anticipate a nursing shortage in America that will grow to 260,000 registered nurses, which we will need and not have, by the year 2025.

Our focus is on fiscal year 2011 budget request of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

We just don't seem to be ready to make a commitment.

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The SEC's Fort Worth office was aware since 1997 that Robert Allen Stanford was likely operating a Ponzi scheme.

Are you trying to recover the $75 billion?

Consumers are affected every day by the FTC's work.

Boy, we're above average.

The last major hurdle that we are trying to defeat right now is management intransigence.

Thank you for holding this hearing on the financial crisis afflicting the United States Postal Service and the current proposal to eliminate 6-day mail delivery to American households and businesses.

By and large, our Postal Service is as reliable, if not more reliable, than most any in the world.

And I guess I'd have to say, bluntly, that Congress can ignore both of you.

After the embarrassment of Bernie Madoff, this inspector general report about your whistleblower program is troubling to me.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

What kind of challenges does this present to your agency to have this kind of mix which is moving toward much different objects that are at the soul and heart of the futures trading markets?

I'm also very interested to learn more about the FTC's efforts to address anticompetitive pay-for-delay patent settlements, which keep lower-cost generic drugs off the market and cost consumers and taxpayers billions of dollars.

Serious questions need to be asked and answered before Congress simply changes the course and embraces major changes in mail delivery.

Unemployment and the foreclosure crisis have created prime opportunities for fraudsters to prey on financially vulnerable Americans.

I also look forward to getting into a discussion about certain privacy issues, such as whether the FTC is investigating allegations against Google violating the privacy rights of our citizens.

They have a tendency to exaggerate, anyway.

I assume that that is what's being debated currently, with the independent actuaries and such, at the Postal Regulatory Commission.