I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes on two subjects. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

this would be something I think we ought to look into a bit more to make sure that I could just see some systemically risky action being caught up inside an investigation

I wholeheartedly believe the former Chairman of the Joint Chief, Admiral Mullen, when he said the greatest single threat to our country is not the threat of terrorism but the threat of our debt and deficit.

Well, Mr. Chairman, one of the things may be that many of these entities I think works, do self-police.

I also want to apologize to the Committee. You have all had to endure at times stories from me of my glory days as governor.

the goal of his bill was to basically show the taxpayer the money.

The public deserves to know how each Federal dollar is spent.

the goals of the bill, which include transparency of Federal spending and consistent data standards, are admirable, and I certainly support them.

If you do not have transparency, it feeds into the public's distrust and cynicism of everything we do.

The title of today's hearing could not be more perfect: 'Show Me the Money.'

My hope would be, since we have dramatically upgraded our wind tunnel investments in the United States, that Boeing would no longer do that testing on the European wind tunnels.

I hope that vote in the House will mean that we'll recognize that on sequestration--that to continue to punt on these issues, that maybe this will mean we can see the kind of bipartisan consensus that we've got to generate some additional…

I'm very much in favor of that. And I think that could help improve U.S. competitiveness for the entire American industry.

The primary goal of the DATA bill is to show us--both the taxpayers and the policymakers--the money.

I do think one area that we ought to continue to promote is having the Federal Government... move more quickly into the cloud.

it is remarkable--and I think this is why Congress is at record low levels of approval--that we cannot step up, almost un-American that we cannot do our job relative to what is being asked of other people around the world.

I would also point out for some of my colleagues that because of the actions we took as this Congress in Dodd-Frank and otherwise, we have seen an increase in capital in American banks in excess of $300 billion.

We actually have legislation to try to promote these startup activities, Startup Act 2.0, which addresses the very issues you talked about as well as the issue of talent.

this year marks the 150 anniversary of the Morrill Act of 1862, which led to the creation of our Nation's land- grant universities. In 1862, there were only six engineering or agricultural colleges in the entire United States. By 1880…

I share, Chairman Schapiro, your concern that if you have got to have an intervention and whether that intervention is de minimis or larger, if it is breaking the buck, it has the potential of starting and unraveling.

this is a broad, bipartisan amendment-- Warner-Crapo-Kirk-Shaheen-Bennet-Webb. It basically does three things in the broadband area. It accelerates access to those areas that are underserved. As a matter of fact, we have a 2009 USDA IG…

I ask to call up amendment No. 2457 and ask the clerk to report. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Virginia [Mr. Warner], for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Kirk, and Mr…

Risk is an everyday feature of our financial system.

We must have a regulatory regime that determines what risks can be undertaken by which financial institutions.

This episode demonstrates an extraordinary failure of risk management.