I think Governor O'Malley is one of the most effective Governors not only in the history of our State but I think in our Nation in using these performance evaluations to make sure taxpayer money is being properly spent.

And when you started even on the --in the ability to demonstrate the effectiveness of the program, did you sit with your leadership team and try to sort through which questions, did you have your staff--how do you even decide which is…

Thank you, Executive Leggett.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue.

I want to particularly thank Senator Cardin. He is an important member of both the Senate Budget Committee and the Government Performance Task Force, and I have benefited greatly from his guidance and support.

The only question I would have with that is I am not sure in this case more is always better and that at some point limitations--you could have--whether it is your contracting officials, whether it is your senior management, spending a…

I do think he has a point in terms of at some level in oversight a 535-member board, which in effect the Federal Government has with both the House and the Senate, each trying to ask specific items, can get into a level of micromanagement.

It would seem to me... we are going to see them again anytime soon.

the worst example of penny-wise, pound-foolish is not investing in the Federal contracting oversight work force

There is governmental oversight, but there is not a governmental efficiency metrics performance group.

President Obama has spoken on that, and we also are trying to see if we can get that included in whether a larger energy bill or perhaps even in a small business or some of the other legislation that is moving forward.

What seems to be that we have not cracked the code on yet is if we are going to achieve the savings.

And again, my time is up, but I would just think that we should be able to get data that shows, here is what a home's energy costs would be without energy efficiency, whether in the construction or in the retrofit, and there ought to be an…

I am very optimistic and hopeful about the Home Star Initiative.

I am supportive of what Senator Whitehouse and Senator Menendez are trying to do in this overall green housing initiative.

I believe that the goals of universal service should extend to broadband deployment to support buildout plans in rural American and in underserved areas.

I think it is a very big issue, this question of early-stage capital formation.

I think the greatest job and wealth creator in the next 25 years, worldwide, will be the energy sector.

One of the areas that we've had the most precipitous decline in the last decade is the slowing of early-stage capital formation.

Minnesota, in my State, has led medical innovation for more than 60 years and boasts more than 400 medical device companies.

The markets of tomorrow are not just going to be domestic, they're going to be all over the world.

Already, FDA's inconsistent approval process has dampened investment.

the rate of change that we'd seen across the 16 metrics that Dr. Atkinson will describe later.

I think it would be very helpful--as most of the American public still questions, I view, the stimulus was, while not pretty, necessary.

The mission of NSF has basically morphed into one of supporting scientists at universities.