I might disagree with a few of the points you just made, but I would say you are as well coached, well prepped, well talking pointed as any person that has ever come before this Subcommittee.

I wished we were following their lead in that regard.

because of what we have done with the Dodd-Frank bill, there are tremendous opportunities in the countries that they represent for out-migration of jobs from our country

I think Senator Warner made a very good contribution to that.

I read an analysis yesterday in the Financial Times talking about the bill that was just passed, the Dodd-Frank bill, and the final analysis was so many pages, so little content.

If we ended up being out of synch with the rest of the world in areas that made us not competitive...

I am slightly skeptical about our ability to do that.

We are getting ready to pass some legislation in the next 35 minutes.

I wish to speak for a moment about the Dodd-Frank bill that we are going to vote on apparently tomorrow evening. I wanted to talk a little bit about politics, which is not my specialty, and then a little bit about the substance. I know the…

I'd like to know, with definition, what our end state is for civilian operations--the very question we asked when we set this hearing up.

I have no earthly idea what our objectives are on the civilian front.

I still haven't understood what the administration was saying in the beginning.