Mark Warner

But it has got to have that relentless----

Well, Governor, thank you very much. You have been very generous with your time, and congratulations on this 10-year experiment.

One of the things we are hoping, working with President Obama's administration, is with a legislative partner we can institutionalize this.

We actually did have Michael Barber come in and talk to us about the Delivery Unit model from the U.K.

Governor, you tried this model out at the city level where you could get your arms around it. You grew it to the State level.

I think--I can only speak for my State--a lot of folks did not understand what that act involved, did not understand it was the third largest tax cut in American history.

Thank you for your presentation. In respect of your time, we will try to make sure each of us takes 5 or 6 minutes in our question period.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue.

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.

We need to do what Governor O'Malley has already done in Maryland: create governmentwide goals and incent our Federal agencies to work more closely together.

We developed some of the similar cross-cutting policy goals and measures to support them, similar to what Governor O'Malley has done.

I want to thank my colleagues Senator Cardin and Congressman Sarbanes for accompanying me to this hearing.

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.

I salute you for your efforts.

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.

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.

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

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

We should expand the regular R&E tax credit.

It would help, since a third of that was tax cuts, and nobody in Virginia knew we gave them a tax cut, either.

I believe tax policies ought to encourage long-term hold, early-stage capital formation.

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