In a Congress that is too often polarized along partisan lines, Congresswoman Tauscher has won friends and respect on both sides of the aisle.

I think she is an absolutely tremendous appointee who I hope will speed through the Senate with all due haste.

It has been an honor serving with you and I know the House is in good hands with your leadership.

The cumulative effects of the recession--17 consecutive months of job loss, totaling 6 million jobs--have left these ordinary, hard-working Americans on precarious footing.

I am encouraged by marginal improvements like consumer confidence, but even this good sign is accompanied by a sobering counterpoint.

I would like to thank Chair Maloney for holding this hearing.

When will SENTINEL be done? I mean, when will you have completed it?

Well, I think that's fantastic.

Chairwoman Mikulski, I would like to conclude by thanking you and this Committee for your service and your support.

the Census Bureau will hire 1.5 million workers.

The census needs to be done on time and it's had significant technological failure and will need to be more manpower intensive.

We want to support the effort to modernize Quantico.

We've got to protect the American people by making sure the FBI has the right tools, and that's technology.

It reduced our ability to surge resources within our Criminal Branch and meet existing and emerging threats.

You can always get a new gun, but you can't go back and redo technology.

Now I want to go to the next one, which I found really surprising here.

The American people count on the FBI to protect them from those people that have predatory intent against them.

We can't bring talented, smart people that you're recruiting with all kinds of backgrounds and bring them into a dated facility.