It is rare that we get a request signed by a chairman and a ranking member of a full committee and subcommittee. So that created an importance for us to look at NSPS cost.

I was just in the right place at the right time. And Luke got to me right where I could put it in. It was a great pass. I looked up and saw three minutes and knew we had to get one in fast.

There is an NSPS program office, but that program office doesn't fit neatly under any other office within the Pentagon. Well, then, whose responsibility is it to roll up the cost? It's not the program office; their responsibility is to design the program and get it implemented.

In most of these programs, ... education is completely subordinate to the demands of the sport.

Independent and impartial exercise of judicial authority is an essential aspect of a free society. Instead of safeguarding judges from political pressures, most election systems invite such influence.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.