Well, Mr. Dodaro, let me ask you in terms of GAO's efforts in something like that. Have you ever seen that type of prioritization just in case?

Obviously you are a creature of Congress here, as is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Would those be the two agencies that would try and develop those types of plans, just in case?

Senator Carper's bill to require an OPM recalculation to correct the mistakes and balance the accounts is desperately needed to stop the crippling payments.

I came to Washington because we are bankrupting this Nation. We are here at a very serious time.

I used the analogy earlier today, because I have a dirty garage, but if you are going to try and clean it, you start somewhere.

We simply cannot afford to have inefficient and ineffective Government.

How expensive?

I think we have overregulated. I think regulation is strangling our economy.

I think the fundamental issue here is the fact that there is a trade-off between safety and economic activity.

Did the EPA just admit that their estimates for mercury were 1,000 times overstated? And is that the basis of your net analysis?

I do not have a great deal of faith in government's ability to estimate costs.