Mike Rounds

How about putting it in the law?

This has got to be resolved, Mr. Chairman.

I think this--you know, I like what you are trying to do at the VA.

Drive 170 miles if you want your glasses.

I am sorry, but there is something wrong with this process, sir.

We need the reforms.

It does not sound like it is a joint decision.

Last year, Congress passed the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act by unanimous votes in both chambers.

I most certainly think that additional resources would be welcome and that when we start talking about investment in infrastructure...

I like the idea of having the additional carrier. With that also comes THE reason for having the carrier and that is the air group that comes with it.

If it has been 3 years and we actually have nuclear attack submarines that are sitting at dock and we still do not have a plan in place to get out or at least there is not a plan that we have heard yet, it seems to me that that is one area…

I just think some of the questions which they have asked really do deserve to be able--we should be able to get an answer to them one way or another before we actually get into this.

While we want to see a simplification, and I think a lot of people out there would love to see that happen, there is also a concern that, as the President would suggest, it is truly time to prime the pump similar to the way that it…

I am concerned by the President's proposed, as we call it, the skinny budget, which provided no funding for TIGER grants for fiscal year 2018.

Rest assured we would love to provide additional input and advice as you come to making the decisions in this particular case.

Not only does it impact some very rural areas that are able to obtain some Federal dollars in this process.

In my former life, I sold insurance at the regional level, and we did business with a lot of regional carriers who really, during the really tough times, they stayed with us.

Our goal here is to get results.

I do not believe there was actually any evidence found where they actually did anything.

We do not know much about cybersecurity, and what we are trying to do is to learn it and to make good decisions.

I find that very inappropriate. I do believe there is a moral hazard involved in that.

It seemed that--and the reason why I bring it up, it seems as though there may be a duplication of activity there.

Did you look at--on another matter, have you looked at the Choice Program and the operation of the Choice Program?

The Asian carp has become an emerging threat to not only our rivers and lakes, but literally, as pointed out earlier, the physical safety of boaters.

The more we make flood insurance to be a normal insurance product, something that people just get or their insurance agent asks them, 'Do you want this?' we are going to get more people covered.