Robert Menendez actually said...

If we want the types of private sector partnerships we will be hearing about today to work, we need to step up as well.

Mr. Chairman, if I may, just for a moment, I have an amendment that is pending in the Finance Committee which I have to go attend to.

At some point all the efficiencies, all the cost savings, and all the reforms are simply not enough to make up for a lack of investment.

There has been some discussion in this Committee about whether the private sector can fill in the gaps where Government has fallen short.