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H.R. 5499 would hold the agencies accountable, but more fundamentally, it would make Congress accountable to the people.

I believe that a friendly amendment that would protect our whistleblowers would be in order.

I can assure you that whistleblowers are a vital part of what we do, from an oversight standpoint.

I think at some point, if we want to be anything more than a debating society, we're going to have to start reclawing some of this authority.

There may be some way to go into county title agencies and be able to identify a flag...

I think we need to figure out if there are aggravating factors or other things that we can put into the prosecutors' playbook to make this something that there is a real consequence.

I agree with Senator McCaskill would be great to get, but there may be others...

The IG Empowerment Act would give you most of the tools, you believe, to be able to make sure that we not only have a transparent and accountable government but empower the IGs to be able to better do their job not just at DOJ but across…

I do believe that--and so maybe you can speak to that critical nature of that particular piece of legislation on how it could have helped in this situation and other similar situations.

If we are going to cut the budget, it doesn't need to be cut from the census, it needs to be cut from other areas of responsibility, from my perspective.

The big one, fraud prevention, according to what you've given us, it doesn't look like you plan to deliver that until March of 2020.

So only 40 percent of them will not be implemented for end-to-end testing. So I was wrong by 10 percent.

I thank the gentlewoman for her interest in making sure that everybody is properly counted.

The egg on our face will not happen with some of the other, granted, very important aspects that you have under your jurisdiction.

I think basically there's----

So what have you changed? I've only got 5 minutes.

I do very much appreciate that. And I didn't mean to convey necessarily population versus people.

It is critical that we handle this problem because you're going to continue to have retention problems.