Mr. O'Rourke, you argued strongly for a block buy.

I am concerned about where the National Academies of Sciences is going with regard to four icebreakers.

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I just want to register some questions that I have, and concerns, to the merger between Sinclair and Tribune.

Do you invest in a border or do you invest in better X-ray machines at the border crossing stations?

While we allocate billions in a border wall that may not work, I am hearing stories of many of our border agents not being able to talk to each other using their existing equipment.

This is another reason, a primary reason why a border wall, in my opinion, is not a solution to our border security challenges.

While Secretary Kelly and many lawmakers in Congress talk about the value of technology to better secure our borders, we remain concerned that we are not utilizing technology to its fullest benefits.

A million here, a million there translates to a billion here and a billion there. Those dollars, we can only spend once.

Very quickly again to Mrs. Gambler, what remains to be done in order for the agency to better measure the effectiveness of its capabilities?

So, theoretically, you would just add--tack on these six to the hotline at some point, and get them over there?

So you are saying, here is all the stuff we wanted. Now we are going to cut it down to what we can afford?

But if you want to make the icebreaker everything to everybody, it will be master of none, and it will be massively expensive.

We cannot do our work without good information, Admiral, and we don't have it.