It's affected by international circumstances, over which we only have limited control - we have influence but not control - but we can also do things in the way that I've described to boost confidence at home.
There is the broader context, without question, that we need to -- Congress can, if it behaves rationally, we can do things not just to grow the economy and create jobs, but as was demonstrated by the process over the debt ceiling debate, that there is ample bipartisan -- could be ample bipartisan consensus for getting our long-term fiscal house in order.
But we don't know everything, but I think we can focus on the things that we do know about not smoking, about eating fruits and vegetables and about exercising regularly.
But we still do not know, we can only hope, that those new things would justify the costs of building such systems.
Now there's lots of things we can do to help the situation, and they're not all military.
The best we can say, perhaps, is that we do not do these things lightly and that we act in what we think are the best long-term interests of the programme.
We know that some of us are aging and not capable of doing the same things we used to do, maybe not at the same speed, so to have those young rookie players that can go in there and go, it adds a little mix for other teams to stay on their heels.
We have not announced an official program on that front, but we do believe that there are going to be some things that we can do.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told a parliamentary committee he hoped to "persuade our European partners" to relax the embargo, which is due to be renewed in May, "but if we can't, then it's not out of the question we might have to do things in our own way".
It incorporates a lot of the ideas that were contained in this bill, because -- in the Jobs Council report -- because one of the things that you mentioned was not only do we need infrastructure, we have to streamline the approval process so that we can actually get these projects moving more quickly than they have in the past.
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