John Hoeven

A stable Government, predictable policy, and predictable regulatory responses are all essential to the decisions to invest here.

Your priority list is your priority list. Got that.

It certainly is a time when we want business to invest here at home.

Do they, in essence, act as a service bureau, where you just pay them a fee out of your budget for the use of their time on their servers and their computers?

Well, sometimes you have to go through a series of steps which may make sense or, based on the statute, now that you've been doing this you may want to say, 'You know, if we didn't have to do a couple of these things, we could still get a…

Okay. If you could have them give us that cost, that anticipated time to build it, and then what the resulting savings might be, that would be helpful.

I'm very hopeful that, as we do, we're going to get into a process where we go through that normal budgeting process.

We're going to have to find ways to trim and prioritize.

My hope is that we just voted for the last short-term continuing resolution and that the next effort at the end of this 3-week period we will finish out the rest of the year and the 2012 budget we are working on right now will be treated…

And are they actually building that security system, or firewall, so that you then can migrate to the one computer, and it's just a matter of them getting that done?

I respect that greatly, and am going to work to do the best I can to produce the very best budget.

We have a significant and growing deficit and debt.

I look forward to working with you, as the Chairman, on this subcommittee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate it.

I think a no-fly zone is something that we can and should do with our allies as expeditiously as we can.

I think it is very good to be bringing down more oil from Canada for our country's needs.

How can we do the best job possible in terms of managing our foreign aid in a way where we influence the outcomes?

Thanks so much for being here and for your work on behalf of our country.

I think it represents a great opportunity and should be a real priority for USGS.

We're going to need it going forward both for continued oil and gas development.

You as Governor would know that that's where you go first is to see where you cut your budget.

But it makes it economically viable, and that's vital, right?

I want to express my intent today to join as a cosponsor on legislation regarding EPA regulation that Senator Manchin is putting forward. That is a good example where we can work together to create jobs and opportunities.

I really was interested in other energy sectors as well, including renewables.

We are doing it right. We are doing it well. We are being very diligent that it's environmentally sound, but we will not be dissuaded or deterred.