the more you can get contractors involved in competition, the lower you're going to experience pricing on these major contracts.

I'm pleased to see, in this budget request, a clear commitment in increasing NNSA's ability to assess the safety, security and reliability of nuclear weapons.

I'm pleased that the NNSA plans to accelerate efforts to secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world, within the coming 4 years.

It is an increase in funding for some very important programs. And the questions that have been raised, I think, are questions you, as a manager, I'm sure, raise every day.

How do we give the taxpayer full value for their money on these important security issues?

It just seems to me that a reduction of nearly one-half a billion dollars in fiscal year 2011 in investment in Corps water projects is not going to be able to do what we need to do to invest in these infrastructure projects.

I'm pleased to see, in this budget request, a clear commitment in increasing NNSA's ability to assess the safety, security and reliability of nuclear weapons.

I really want you to succeed. We need to find a way to get enough capital into this rail passenger system.

if we don't get serious about the infrastructure, yes, roads, bridges, water projects, you name it, we won't be the kind of country we used to be

the more you can get contractors involved in competition, the lower you're going to experience pricing on these major contracts.

I'm a big supporter of Amtrak. I think rail passenger service is an important part of the transportation network.

The agreement would provide $3.4 billion to settle outstanding claims and address issues going back well over 100 years in which the Federal Government was supposed to be taking care of the trust accounts of American Indians. Some of those…