And if there is the perception they have gone, it is the courts? Who do they respond back to----

I think it would be safe to say that many school officials did not find the interpretation to be inherent in Title 9.

What is the best timing in the process for people to be able to come to you as the gatekeeper?

We have dropped down, as I mentioned, to one carrier. At the same time, several of our rural hospitals have closed in the last several months.

I am glad to be a part of this colloquy and to talk about what is happening during this conversation. It is not just Tinker. There are multiple major bases in Oklahoma. It is extremely important that we continue to maintain a strong…

In its current form I couldn't support it.

Thank you very much, Chairman.

I would have no issue eliminating that for Unfunded Mandates Reform Act because again, that was a compromise that was made years ago that has proved to be an error.

By the way, there are some proposals that are floating around now that a group of us have floated on reforming the budget process.

It is time for the Congress and the President to take down the artificial and increasingly arbitrary wall that insulates independent agencies from OIRA's review.

we are creating more and more sense that they really are truly independent of everyone, and with no accountability, we have a big issue.

Congress created them. They are not independent of Congress' oversight by far.

we are going to continue to over-delegate responsibility, I think, to executive and independent agencies.

Just needs to be fixed, that is all it is. Just one little word change.

I think you could also accomplish some of those same things with advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and get more people at the table earlier.

But are often partisan placements.

It should inform to say we are thinking about this.

it is just a lot more comfortable for us to beat up on the agencies than to turn the finger pointing back at us.

No public entity should be exempt from oversight.

They were going to be specialized in their area to be able to get faster, non-political responses.

If we go down this track and the cost is so high and the benefit does not seem to do it, then let us find other alternatives to do it.

There has to be a built-in accountability structure.

Cost benefit analysis, as several of you have brought up, is to inform rather than to check the box and to justify.

Independent regulatory agencies should be held to the same procedural standards as executive branch agencies.

It is just 'did you do everything you said you were going to do'?