When we have literally thousands of people that are teleworking, and we do not know if it is working or not.

CBO would look at that and say Congress has fixed that every year, they come up with a new way to fix that every year.

More data in its rawest form is helpful to us rather than its refined lowest-common-denominator-type form.

Do not pull back from giving us accurate information for the sake of saying we have to play the Washington game on things.

In some agencies, it may be working exceptionally, but just the last several months, IBM, after years of doing telework decided this is not working and they are pulling people back in.

At some point, I guess 5, 10 years out, we will be able to audit every country in the world except our own Pentagon.

There is this myth that all of you know well is just a myth that foreign actors, whether they be North Korea, Iran, Russia, or China, are interested in hacking into the Pentagon, but they are really not interested in anyone else. That is…

Yes, the Global Accountability Office.

I think the Coast Guard is actually almost a perfect training ground for this job.

I appreciate very much the time that you spent with me and with other members of this Committee prior to this hearing.

Mr. President, first of all, let me say that I am really glad the junior Senator from Georgia has taken this on. This is something that some of us who have been around a little bit longer have gone through before. I think everyone realizes…

It seems like around a $4 billion idea to be able to save a lot of money back and forth with that.

I think that is what I am asking.

Do you have a system to be able to go through and evaluate those ideas? While every idea when you are brainstorming is a good idea, not every idea actually works.

If I talk to an agent, they still feel like an appendage in the DHS machine.

As we meet today, no one knows exactly how many agencies actually make up the Federal Government.

A complicated Federal bureaucracy has hamstrung agencies as they seek to achieve their core missions in service to all Americans.

I want to make sure we are getting your input in here as well.