We need to defund it or, better, to deauthorize it, which myself and others here are working to do.
Don't those increased costs get passed on to your consumers?
So I would ask each one of our witnesses, briefly: One, are you for good environmental stewardship?
We are all for clean water, but this rule puts such a heavy burden on farmers and ranchers.
They are going beyond their authorized authority.
This is not a partisan issue. Most of us who actually receive comments from constituents can tell you clearly that these issues do not know ...
Do you have some way to test and verify that you are ahead of the curve when it comes to unmanned aircraft or to cyber?
Is that addressed in this appropriation?
So there needs to be some thought given and analysis as to what that retention policy needs to be, correct?
How many of these are new people or additional people versus backfilling, because you have an attrition challenge, too?
Is this funding adequate for you to do it?
Director, talk about manpower. I know you are, I know, perennially short of manpower.
It's the Keystone XL pipeline that has sort of become a metaphor for what we don't have in this country.
And you are confident now for an incident that occurs in one part of, for example, the White House complex, an officer or agent reports up, ...
Just one other follow-up question on having adequate personnel, not only retaining adequate personnel, but also the training.
I am going to switch to the September 19 fence-jumper incident and just ask you to give me your report.
It looks like there will be quite a few.
I think with your cyber mission, that lends itself well to also having that defense.
