Where would you spend your next dollar?

This budget--you know, we wish it could be better, and it can be better if Congress has the gumption to vote for a better or stronger budget.

I hope this committee will not blame the Pentagon for obeying the law, because Congress made up the budget.

BRAC is one of the most visible areas in which we in Congress have tied the Pentagon's hands.

We could have a larger budget if we had the courage to vote for it.

It is almost like magical thinking. So I hope that this year, we will be more realistic.

It is important that we work through these issues on a bipartisan basis for the good of the American taxpayer.

It took many years. Why? Because the administration of George W. Bush had a veto threat out on the legislation.

I, right now, have a 17 percent vacancy rate in my office just to stay under the limits that I have been operating under in the last few years.

The American spirit is the can-do, we can fix it attitude, not the blame game, not the bickering game.

I am worried that the net effect of this hearing might be to exaggerate the security difficulties of the website.

the fault is on our side of the dais. So I don't want to put you in a tough spot, so I will go ahead and make some points on my own about the House's and Congress' inability to perform adequately in these trying times.