We are either going to have a continuing resolution or we are going to have a negotiated bipartisan agreement.

Until we actually get the numbers where we can appropriate, things don't happen.

So our goal is to fashion a budget that focuses on the things that work, that tries to decrease the areas where there are either duplications or redundancies or waste.

Some of us up here have been concerned for a long time about the lack of a new Authorization for Use of Force.

I think it is very important for people to understand, because that--I think that--that, frankly, wall of independence is really critical to your mission and retaining the confidence that you need to retain, frankly, across the political…

I want to thank my friend for her testimony.

I actually thank the gentlelady. As always, she asks good questions and has good points to make.

If we don't get to a good number in the nondefense area, we will inevitably end up doing something that nobody on either side of the aisle wants to do.

We can't turn our back on providing the unemployed and underemployed citizens with the services that they need to find a job.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."

If we had cuts of the magnitude that I asked you about in the opening round, I can just assure you that we would be talking about reducing centers.

if Americans are willing to support you with their checks, large and small, it suggests to me that you have done your mission.

to govern is to choose, and we will have some tough choices, I have no doubt, to make.

Having visited 2 of the 3 facilities actually before they were closed down on trips for the Interior Committee, you know, just finding places for professionals to live.

We look forward to working with you to find ways to stretch those dollars further as well.

I want to thank my good friend for yielding. Before I begin my prepared remarks, I had no idea there was such interest in the Arbuckle watershed, but I am flattered and pleased that all of you are here for this important legislation. I…

I want to thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and, frankly, I want to thank her for taking on this rule and the role she plays in this House. She came to Congress with an extraordinary expertise in national security, probably unsurpassed…

This ability to respond and protect, you know, is, again, every bit as important as our ability to protect our fellow citizens against terrorists.

these are public dollars, and that scrutiny is very, very appropriate and questions from all sides are very, very appropriate.

I think it is a constitutional issue as well. And I think it means a lot when people of your stature tell us that it matters to the men and women that we have put in harm's way to do difficult things for us.

Usually, Indians do better running their own affairs than somebody in Washington does.

I think that is the big challenge this committee has, is just to what our overall allocation is.

Sadly, you know, our history tells us treaties aren't kept very often, frankly.

I would probably be a Mississippi Congressman instead of an Oklahoma Congressman if people kept treaties.

Putting as many of these resources in the hands of the people who are on the ground running programs just makes it so much better.