I urge the committee to continue that trend.
Our nation's heroes should not have to wait even one day to access their benefits.
Veterans and seniors are not the cause of our deficits, so we should not look to them to solve our current crisis.
This budget puts significant limitations on our military hardware.
Those jurisdictional lines have to be combined.
I don't think I can do my job with the current situation as effectively as I can.
I think we are going to be here time and time again--it is like shining a sneaker--trying to see what DHS can do.
Until we can start to--how can Congress approach this if things are so fractured?
I have said this time and again, both on and off the committee, shortsighted plans that eliminate job-creating programs ...
Thank you for having this hearing, which I think is a timely examination of the ways to ensure that our scarce Homeland ...
Yet streamlining operations can at times be distinguished from reducing the resources of Federal employees so drasticall...
I will just close and say that we are looking at duplication, we should look at ourselves first right here in Congress.
I also want to thank Chairman Upton and Ranking Member Waxman of the full committee as well.
I think it is important that we have something very strict and by law that we can operate off of.
the oil companies and the Republicans, they oppose deploying the SPR but their oil-above-all policy doesn't help drivers...
Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the authority of the President to deploy the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should depe...
I also want to thank Chairman Pitts and Ranking Member Pallone for your willingness to address these issues.
There are only two tools the President has to bring down gas prices right now--deploy the strategic petroleum reserve an...