We must ensure that NASA has the stability it needs to succeed.

The report on HRIT released today by the Government Accountability Office makes clear that after more than a decade of sustained investment in HRIT, the program has provided virtually none of the capabilities that DHS leaders initially…

Today, the subcommittee meets to respond to a serious management challenge facing the Department of Homeland Security--specifically, how does DHS build and maintain the large, complex workforce needed to keep Americans safe?

I wasn't suggesting that you were relinquishing anything. My concern is whether or not there is follow-up and accountability.

It just seems to me that this is so vitally important to ensuring that there is consistency and that you have what you need.

Is this something that should be uniformly applied across the Department because it ensures consistency and certain standards?

So I really think that we are helpful to you in raising these issues and asking you to come here, because it kind-of keeps the stuff in the forefront of what you are doing.

I really do get the sense that there is a wake-up call here and that we recognize how important it is to standardize, document, and move forward with this.

We know that you all do really important work and that this is an important Department, but we also know that there are places like TSA that have internal concerns and threats right now as it relates to employees, credentialing, recovering…

I for one would be very interested in ensuring that we had more contact, more feedback, just so that we help you in your need to make sure that the Department is accountable, being accountable on a more routine basis.

Mr. Speaker, there is no greater voice of the civil rights movement here in this Congress and in this Nation than our dear friend, Congressman John Lewis. I am both excited and honored to be able to support this legislation that changes…

It was a small office where so many historic persons were, in essence, able to walk in the midst of those hallowed streets. Dr. King came. I don't know whether he parked a car or walked into that office. Of course, we have all of the other…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, let me state the obvious. All of us are appalled and saddened by the loss of this correctional officer. We express again our sadness and sympathy to his family…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, as the senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and as the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations, as the…

Mr. Speaker, all of us were saddened in the last 2 weeks at the loss of the longest serving jurist, Justice Scalia. There is no doubt he loved the law and he loved the Court. With that in mind, Mr. Speaker, I think it is important that, in…

Mr. President, I join the Nation in offering my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Justice Scalia, who was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. For more than three decades, Justice Scalia devoted himself to the…

I would argue that we win wars not just because we are just the best trained and most proficient, because we are very good at large-scale strategic operational and tactical logistics.

China is new to power projection. I question their ability to conduct these functions effectively in fighting the conflict beyond their shores.