Acquisition reform has always been a challenge at the Department of Defense [DOD].

As you have outlined, these threats are expanding. They are new, and they are essentially technological.

Thank you for your letter of January 28 to National Security Advisor Susan Rice regarding the Administration's program to admit Syrian refugees to the United States.

if we do not do that, Mr. Chairman, I am afraid we will have let down the people who voted us to represent them.

You know, we have got to figure out how to work together as Republicans and Democrats to avoid this coming catastrophe.

I am one who believes there is a lot of waste at the Pentagon and there is room to do more there, even.

I totally agree.

Four percent.

The resettlement of a high number--such a high number of Syrian refugees raises serious National security concerns.

we are heading toward record high tax revenues.

And specifically if a court happens to strike down Executive action, will you respect that court decision?

Guess who did it in 1982? Ronald Reagan.

I believe that is what the President is intending to do.

I think a lot of us would share that preference.

No Federal court has struck down Executive action. The most recent Federal court to hand down a decision supported it.

There is a myth out there that prosecutorial discretion policies are tantamount to an illegal failure to enforce the law.

Exactly. Every prosecutor, whether it is the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney's Office, sets priorities and has to, and that is just what the President did in my opinion in the Executive order.

Some of my friends across the aisle seem to be suggesting that the President's announcement of the enforcement policies for the Department of Homeland Security is tantamount to an announcement that we will not enforce our immigration laws…