Acting Administrator Miller, are lessons from the deficiencies in security oversight being applied to safety oversight? How?
I welcome the witnesses. I am sorry we have to be here, because this incident never should have happened.
I think it is a little frustrating for my colleagues on this committee, myself, too, to really want to sit down at the t...
Quite frankly, that is our job. That is Congress' job. It is not the President's job.
I am more worried, quite frankly, about what comes about on March 27th. That is the appropriations process.
Americans want Washington to tighten their belt. And to do that, we need to find waste.
Do NNSA contractors have too little independent oversight, or too much?
With all due respect, it doesn't sound to me like you are taking responsibility, because aren't you the Deputy Secretary...
But meanwhile, as the inspector general told us in his testimony, your Department is spending about a billion dollars a ...
Then how can you say it was well defended? It was not well defended. That is why we are having this hearing.
What should be done at the contract level to increase accountability and liability for failures?