We appreciate the work that you do in identifying areas of emphasis where we want to be sure that we appropriate the adequate sum of dollars.

Madam Chairman, thank you for convening the hearing.

What's important to me is that in this time of increasingly tight budgets, and the current sequester budget for homeland security, we must depend on sophisticated risk analysis to guide us in making the tough decisions about our spending…

Since I have been on this committee, I have urged my colleagues not to use our positions of influence to promote fear in the public.

I look forward to more ways that this committee can work to help advance the Department.

I look forward to working with Secretary Johnson to bring about needed reforms.

We look forward to working with you to help ensure that funding is available to do these things that we had hoped the Farm Bill authorized.

Could you explain to the subcommittee the function and value of developing and utilizing ranges in the cyber domain?

Madam Chairman, I thank you for convening this hearing and providing the leadership that you do to this Committee.

The timeliness is important because of our observations about the weather.

I appreciate very much the candor and the full explanation the Secretary has given us on these subjects.

I got in a little late, but I'm glad I was here to at least express the appreciation of this committee to our witnesses.

management challenges become a distraction and have grave consequences for our National security.

And ideally, inflation should increase to 2 percent, and that would be a better result as far as you are concerned?

Okay. And Senator Klobuchar said she saw no sign of a rise in inflation for the foreseeable future. You do not agree with that.

This has been very enlightening.

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We believe the SEED program is an excellent example of the kind of innovative and effective work that Congress can support.