Mike Turner

The NAS study committee said it had examined many previous reports and efforts to fix the management relationship.

Some current and former employees of the national labs have expressed concern to this committee that... this is harming their ability to do world-class research.

NNSA, Congress, and top management of the Laboratories recognize that safety and security systems at the Laboratories have been strengthened to the point where they no longer need special attention.

Science and engineering quality is at risk when Laboratory scientists and engineers are not encouraged to bring forth their creative ideas in partnership with NNSA to solve problems vital to our national security.

This hearing will examine long-standing, well-documented, and fundamental concerns with the way NNSA manages its labs and plants.

I believe the problem can be fixed.

I can't imagine what the rules and regulations would look like if Government had to tell them how they should have done their experiments.

The Governance structure of the NNSA is not delivering the needed results. This governance structure should be changed.

The implementation of the NNSA Act failed to achieve the intended autonomy for NNSA within the Department of Energy.

In today's fiscal environment, we cannot afford such inefficiency and waste, particularly when we are seeing major cuts to the pledged nuclear modernization funding in this year's budget request.

This hearing will examine longstanding, well-documented, and fundamental concerns with the way NNSA manages its labs and plants.

This hearing is not like most of the hearings that are taking place however, in that it is not looking directly at a particular agency's fiscal year 2013 budget request.

We must ensure that our nuclear security enterprise is effective and efficient.

Any comment on the efficacy of the VOW Act in regard to business loans?

Do you have any numbers?

Thank you, Chairman Runyan, for holding this important hearing.

It is interesting when you look at what these people have in common--Ahmadinejad, narcoterrorists, and Hugo Chavez, an old-line Communist.

I think that, as I say, ultimately, what is required to avert the crisis and get it under control is a very concerted action by European authorities.

This is completely working against lowering costs and actually helping consumers...

This new, innovative, company offered primarily high deductible plans but because it saw this regulatory steamroller coming...

If we want a level playing field, so to speak, and we want to make sure that things are done right, then there should not be any reason there should not be full transparency.

I think we have learned a couple of things, one of which is the fact that the administration was in on all sides of this deal.

You should be releasing those documents.

I think that is wrong.

Will you release the documents?