Tim Ryan

I can't imagine dealing with this day-in and day-out.

A lot of these things you can see coming. Earlier I raised cybersecurity as a high-risk area in 1997.

There needs to be more dialogue. It can involve not just hearings but followup with agency officials later.

I will be testifying next week on an update on our high-risk list, which we do at the beginning of each new Congress.

Why don't you propose that, Newhouse? Fifteen-year terms for Congress.

We are still Members of Congress. Give us the top line here.

I have been of the thought for some time now that the institution of Congress is not keeping up.

When you have an Italian American leading the charge, they are going to be happy and well-fed, right?

Please let everybody know how much we appreciate it.

I just want to say thank you to you. From our meetings in my office and the hearings I have been here with you, I just want to say thanks.

The committee is in order.

We could get the money upfront, right.

Thank you for the opportunity to present the Congressional Budget Office's budget request.

With CBO, Congress has its own independent source of cost estimates for legislation, assessments of the President's budget proposals, and projections of the future path of spending, revenue, and deficits.

The Federal Government's ability, both executive and legislative branches, to identify emerging issues and to put in place actions to prevent these things from occurring is in need of change.

I look at your reports and I see the work that that you are doing and I hear your testimony and your team's analysis of all of this generally and in particular and just think, with regard to the intelligence community, how valuable it…

CBO has become so much a part of this institution that we may take it for granted, but we should remember what a key role CBO plays in helping Congress effectively exercise the power of the purse assigned to us by the United States…

Yeah. I am glad there is no press in here saying the Congressman wants to sell--the chairman wants to sell off all the assets.

I mean, we probably wouldn't look as poor as we are now or the deficits wouldn't look as bad or the debt wouldn't look as bad if we took into account the assets of the Federal Government.

I would think it would save money in the long run because if we wait, the longer we wait, the more expensive everything is, labor, material, all of that.

I am just kind of tapping into your expertise here.

The longer we wait, the more it is going to be.

I think we have got to get our arms around that because it is going to take some early investments to try to prevent some of that.

Does that trump the chronological request?

Thank you also for your longstanding support of CBO.