I do not think that equates to being free of oversight, free of accountability, and free of transparency.

I want them to be excited about the day ahead, not fearful for their safety.

Of course, fundamentally, the Department of Justice and our DEA, and FBI, and ATF investigators and marshal officers, they do focus on where the problem is biggest and where the gangs are the business.

I just know and I think when I said the BOP has the same staff today as in 2009...

We are trying to do that based on facts, not politics, but where the crisis is greatest.

we have had no oversight of this agency, have we?

This is dangerous business. You get addicted, it grabs you with a power that so many people are never able to break free, their lives are lost.

I know--look, let's be frank, what they would like is a statement that they have been provided safety, a safe harbor, I don't believe I can give that.

Today's hearing marks the continuation of the committee's close look at the rising problem of federal improper payments.

You can make your city safer.

So there is no perfect solution, but that is the best answer I think I can give you.

They are the most violent gang in America, I think by far, and it is incompatible with peace and safety and justice.

We would like to think maybe we wouldn't have to do that, but we do.

I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion that there is little price to pay here.

We have made a commitment to do a job fair annually and to move it around my district.

As administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, do you have the authority to secure the Southwestern Border of the United States if you wanted to do it?

Thank you very much. I yield back.

A family of four in my district only makes $32,000 and the highest unemployment in the State of Alabama is in my district.