John Hoeven

Administrator, as a result of Hurricane Sandy, you received both authority to provide upfront funding for public assistance projects...

So my understanding is there are 144,000 cases or claims that included engineering services.

Okay. And you have already taken steps to address the Administrator who was overseeing the program, I understand, correct?

When will you start that process?

I think it is very important that you are focused on that area, including putting information into that market every way you can.

I think there has to be a carrot and a stick to what we are doing here.

I think that is really an important area, to figure out how to do this.

So that we can continue to produce domestic energy rather than rely on energy from the Middle East.

I think it is so important because it not only demonstrates the economic benefit and impact of the right policies here at home, but also the geopolitical influence we can have on a global basis with the right approach both in terms of what…

But also in your expert opinion the ability to export LNG, liquefied natural gas, and the ability to export oil will benefit our consumers because we will produce more here at home.

We need to lift the export ban on oil. Everybody wins in that equation all the way from the producer to the consumer at the pump.

I think it does just push the discussion on what we do here in this country to relook, critically relook, at these export policies that are inhibiting not only our job growth, our economic opportunity, but really our ability to utilize a…

So infrastructure is vital.

It is very important that we do. So I think you are going to continue to be right in the middle of some very, very important work.

Do you have some kind of cost analysis that shows the relative cost of one consolidated campus versus multiple sites?

You feel that you have generally good security and you are working to make it better with information-sharing and response and coordination and technology deployment, both individually and some of these technologies that cross businesses…

Do you feel you have the ability to get what you need? Yes or no?

Will these technologies put us ahead of the technologies that attackers use to try to infiltrate our systems?

Again, to all the victims and their families in Boston and those from around the country who were affected, and even beyond our shores, our hearts and prayers go out to them once again.

I truly thank you for that.

I am concerned about the civilian cyber campus concept, the cost and idea of putting everything in one place.

We are all for clean water, but this rule puts such a heavy burden on farmers and ranchers.

We are the true environmentalists of this land.

So I would ask each one of our witnesses, briefly: One, are you for good environmental stewardship?

They are going beyond their authorized authority.