I'm particularly worried on some of the accounts and the funding levels, but there are some issues that I would highlight.

I notice that you just sent up a notification to the subcommittee to cancel $123 million for Kandahar Airfield, which is the center of gravity of the largest military effort for the United States.

I'm worried that you guys would be pushed into trying to sell us an agreement that was tangential progress instead of, you know--the question in these budget times is, are we going to build the base or not?

I'm just worried that maybe, you know, I am pretty pro-Guam--talked to Madeleine Bordallo about this, Chairman Culberson--but if we need them too much, they may hijack us for too high a price.

I'm also worried about--no master plan or releasable total cost for the facilities in Guam.

Don't you think that's kind of putting the cart--don't you defend the site before you invest in it?

I'm concerned also about delaying costs as the DOD budget goes down.

But, in the end, all of this combat capability for the Navy and Marine Corps is only worthwhile if it can be around when we need it.

I'm concerned on the Guam side that the U.S. military commitment to Guam, which is vast and necessary, in my view, should, first, include a huge missile defense architecture.

Your mission should be to make it as easy as possible to comply with Federal law.

I think the big boxes can totally transform a neighborhood.

I believe that the Federal Government's fiscal discipline initiatives will both help States control their interest costs and prove that the United States continues to be a model for the rest of the world.

I'm worried--we have appropriated money that apparently is going directly to the Islamic Republic of Iran under your administration.

The ideal way, for me, is a flatter, fairer tax, like what the Gang of Six may come up with to lower the rate to 28 percent.

One of the big reasons why I ran for the Senate was to enact the Small Business Bill of Rights.

So, Erskine Bowles, yesterday, testified before the House that we are facing the most predictable economic crisis in history.

But let me interrupt you on that. There are two ways in the 21st century we can handle complexity.

Let me just say, you do not have substantial success.

I notice that you just sent up a notification to the subcommittee to cancel $123 million for Kandahar Airfield, which is the center of gravity of the largest military effort for the United States.

this morning our former National Security Adviser, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit the White House, and I expect they will discuss the current mission against the Qadhafi dictatorship…

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I'm also worried about--no master plan or releasable total cost for the facilities in Guam.

I want to make sure that the White House prediction of unemployment is your prediction, because my guess is the White House is going to predict over next year unemployment will fall dramatically.

the Department has since informed us that its budget estimates were based on 2008 actuarial data that did not account for a high unemployment rate.

The Congress appropriated a very large amount of money for health IT over at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).