she has local and state level experience, serving senior roles in two denver mayoral administrations as well as extensive experience here in washington, serving as the chief of staff to former u.s. secretary of transportation federico pena in the 1990 s and more recently to hilda solis. between her years of public service here in denver and also in washington, katherine consulted with charities, nonprofits, cities and regional governments and businesses to help them pursue workplace development and crisis management strategies. if you rook for a common thread, mr. president, throughout katherine s career, it s her capacity, her talent to work with individuals and organizations, identify priorities and then notably to create the conditions for successful implementation of these priorities. that s who we need at the helm of o.p.m. it s what americans expect and demand. so as you look at katherine s career, she has demonstrated an ability to lead, to motivate and to work constru
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frankly, most importantly, we can all agree coming to some agreement in a reasonable time frame is probably the most important thing this committee can do to help grow our economy. and doing it on a timeline that allows the appropriation committee to deliver a result without shutting down the government or putting it at any risk is about the best thing we can do. i will agree we can t simply grow our way out of our problem. we have to address the driver of our debt and deficit. we have to don t reduce our deficits which we ve cut in half over the last four years. if we don t, interest intense is a very real threat for crowding out both public and private investment in education r&d and infrastructure. over the last three years we ve made real strides in reducing our deficit. we saved more than $12.5 billion. that s been unbalanced. about 70% has been from spending cut. 30% from revenue. we need to do more but we have do it, i believe, in a balanced way. we ve heard from senat
well, good afternoon. it s been a long time in coming, but we are here. and it s wonderful to have the opportunity to have all of us here today together. i was thinking, mr. chairman, that when you and i started, i remember when i came into the house, we were kind of at the low end of the totem pole on the agriculture committees. and now we both have the honors of working together. and it really is an honor to work with you as we bring this final farm bill home. and that s what we re all doing. this has been a wonderful process with our four agricultural leaders, with ranking member peterson, with ranking member cochran, and our first farm bill to pass the senate with ranking member pat roberts. we have had a very important, and i think, precedent setting opportunity to show how to govern. and we also have been working together for three years in a bipartisan way to reform and streamline agricultural policies that work were families and farmers and taxpayers going ba