I'm for our Federal employees having certainty, that if they work hard and they have a job with their Government and they're doing the job and meeting performance standards they should get pay.

the sequester has a big impact on the functioning of your agencies.

I think this is not about you, sir. This is about us.

What is your view of an approach to both the sequester and our economy?

I say that to my colleagues.

We hear this and it's not colored, it's unvarnished and independent.

You have a big agency and a very, very complex agency.

So it's not better. It has to be pretty near perfect.

You know, they identify management problems, give us a heads-up if we're heading to some technology boondoggles.

See, these go to systemic reform, not every case is different.

What troubles me about your answer, sir, is that you're treating this as a cluster of individual cases rather than a nationwide problem.

I don't think you could find a lot of either elected or appointed officials who want to cut cancer research.

I do believe you have to go to your leadership corps. It starts at the Air Force Academy, the kind of training that your Air Force uses.

Thank you very much. We're glad we invited you. That was a very content-rich presentation.

legislation is really necessary. The Executive order the President put into effect is a very important step, but legislation is necessary to really give us the tools we need.

I want to acknowledge that most of these payroll agencies are honest people and small to medium-sized business must rely upon them.

We would like to be in conversation with you about cyber security.

I believe they should pay when the case has been concluded, not during the case.

The Ryan budget cancels sequester for the Department of Defense only.

Well, right now does the IRS notify taxpayers when a payroll service provider tries to change its client's business address?

I support the President's budget level of $1.5 trillion, the same as we agreed to in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2013.

Not better. It's got to be solved. I'm going to be pretty firm about this.

Would you take a look at that and see if that would constitute a reform?

I want to welcome two of my colleagues: Senator Udall, who is new to the subcommittee, but not new to appropriations.

But in order to implement ACA, you can't use the Appropriations Committee or the sequester to derail a policy that has now been passed into law.