total workforce diversity is critically important to the Coast Guard. We view diversity as both mission relevant and an organizational imperative.

One of the things that is very important, too, is mentoring.

we have got to produce and we have got to see results.

if this was my office and I had the goals to have a diverse workforce, she wouldn't be there.

Okay. All right, August 1st.

Why don't we just make a date, say September 1st?

This Country cannot be all that it is supposed to be if we are caught up in a culture of mediocrity; it just can't.

I want to thank you for doing that. But now we have got to have results.

We need to have better understanding from the international community as to what America is doing in regards to its detention policies.

I think you have restored the confidence of the American people in the Department of Justice being there for all the citizens of our country.

We will not always agree, but I think it is important that we have these candid discussions.

I strongly agree with you, and I think most of the Members of Congress strongly agree with you, with that statement.

Let me ask you, if I might, about voting rights cases, because we have not really touched on that too much during this hearing.

It is important that it be an open process. And I just would urge us, we need to develop what is right for America.

It appears like it was an intentional effort, and I think the Department of Justice activities here could be very helpful to make it clear that we will not tolerate reverse redlining.

I must tell you, I thank you very much for your comments as it relates to placing due process in regards to those that are going to be detained.

women still just earn 78 cents for every dollar our male counterpart makes.

We are on new territory because this will be the first time we are trying to move from volume medicine to value medicine.