I very much appreciated and am in agreement with your comments, that not only do we have to look at the spending side of our budget, and entitlements and defense are a big piece of that, but we also need to look at revenues and tax reform.

Perhaps you can share some of those technologies with the rest of us in government, so that we can be more efficient and more energy independent.

I appreciated everyone's expressed commitment, again, to the health and well-being of all the servicemen and women and their families.

This program has been supported by congressionally-directed spending--earmarks--which are not likely to continue.

I would just hope, Secretary Mabus and all of you, that you will take those recommendations very seriously.

I know that Senator Collins earlier today raised the question about the backlog of restoration and modernization projects at the four public shipyards.

I am very concerned about the backlog of restoration and modernization projects at the four public shipyards.

In New Hampshire we have a very significant defense industry that has been doing a lot of cutting edge research.

I think Pease National Guard Base is one of the places that you should look at very carefully.

We face a declining infrastructure that is critical to our business. We need safe, reliable transportation if we are going to keep the flow of commerce moving. But as President Obama mentioned in his State of the Union Address, when…

I certainly agree with that, and hopefully, if we adopt a clean energy standard, it will include biomass as part of that.

I hope you will take a look at this.