I think we have 13 bills before the committee. We appreciate getting the Administration's feedback on them.

These are hard decisions.

I am disappointed, as you can imagine, on that front, because I do not think it is up to the task that we have before us, which I think is an urgent one.

this budget does not make a dent in the huge problem we all know we face: historic levels of debt and unacceptable deficits

I do hope, without getting into a long discussion about this, that you will commit to trying to meet these statutory deadlines.

Can you imagine a balanced budget today?

Your measure of success will be sort of an unusual one, which is not how popular you are but how unpopular you are among your Cabinet colleagues.

We have legislation... to close that gap, to give the President the authority to do what he says he wants to do.

It's critical for our energy security, certainly to have enriched uranium for our power plants.

We want to be sure it's going to be done in an environmentally safe way.

There is one major gap, as you know, and you and I talked about it. It does not apply to independent agencies.