So you are suggesting this is what needs to be done, what needs to be implemented?

I probably disagree with my very fine Inspector General. I think the report on its face is a very good report.

You cannot have perception, widespread perception without reality.

If you are training and trying to break through on some of the issues that Mr. Edwards has commented on, you need to see whether your training is working.

I am looking at your diversity, I am looking at the participation of women.

I believe, is again, as I have said often in this committee, part of the front line of defense of the American homeland.

Today, we will hear from the leadership of FAMS about the plan to correct the workforce issues that have long plagued this organization.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I think, if you could, tell me what the President's budget, Mr. Bray, has submitted for your agency?

I do call for the suspension of funds. I think it is very good to isolate those as to military funds.

I think we can generally ask you for the numbers--do you foresee cuts in FAMs, working FAMs besides management?

I am not asking for any numbers.

Does it also take into consideration the comments made or the report made by the Inspector General?

At the core of this issue is a misallocation of funds because of two separate weighting systems.

The All Children Are Equal (ACE) Act (HR 2485) was introduced by Congressman Glenn Thompson and garnered broad, bipartisan support from 17 House colleagues.

Our job is far from complete. I commend this committee's ongoing efforts to reauthorize ESEA and look forward to the continued leadership committed to the current improvement in and support of our nation's public schools.

But in a very real sense, the entire system failed her, from orders of protection that are meaningless and can't stop bullets to women being asked in South Carolina to go represent themselves in domestic violence court, to inadequate…

If the goal of the ongoing series of hearings on President Obama's regulatory reform to ensure that that was the case, that regulations be simple, clear, and reasonable, I would be in complete support of these continued hearings.

I think it would be incredibly important to this debate and to this committee to hear from women.