"Well, thank you very much. Last year, the Commerce--Justice made sure that we carved out $2 million for your office to help with the oversight, not to do it in a schoolmarmish way, but we need a lot of red alerts and alarms and--to know where, as you say, kind of like the dash--the lights on a dashb..."
"Yes, but that's not $87 million. So, you want to hire more commercial officers to be in foreign countries."
"And we wonder, are we going to see more escalating costs, and then you--or Dr. Lubchenco--has to go to other services, like the Weather Service, which we're so dependent upon, to pay for the increase ..."
"Close to a $9 billion appropriations request, $5 billion of that in NOAA; and of that, 35 percent, this satellite program that seems vociferous."
"But, the Secretary referenced that, on March 22, he'll have a picture of how the returns are going."
"DOD has a critical shortage of mental healthcare professionals."
"I think we have to solve the question of, How does the Defense Department cover its needs in solid rockets if NASA goes ahead with what I consider to be a very ill-considered decision on the part of t..."
"The OCRP has funded research on important questions such as defining bio-markers that could be fundamental to development of a blood test for early-stage disease."
"I was so proud of what Senator Leahy did, and I really bring this to the attention that Senator Leahy, with his leadership as the Chair, your work in Haiti, that we take special attention to that."
"We want to work--today, this is not the environment to have this conversation."
"I had the great honor of being with him in Mozambique where he had created a low-tech but highly effective industry."