the administration's proposed rescission of $98 million in funding for the construction of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center ...
Do we have your assurance that all voices of State and local crime labs will be at the table during any DNA policy review discussion?
But it is a sordid problem, is it not? And it is billions of dollars involved worldwide, is it not?
Counterterrorism alone makes up now 40 percent of the FBI's budget.
What more vile crime in the world than to do harm to children.
The FBI does keep America safe. It is an agency that is on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Senator Shelby and I want to stand very close sentry over anything that could be cost overruns where our budget is heading in the direction ...
Reducing the DNA backlog is one of the single most important issues facing all of law enforcement in this country.
It makes no sense to me.
We have had hearings on that in the Banking Committee, and are working with the FBI and the Justice Department on that.
However, the budget request doesn't necessarily reflect that.
But the grants, Senator Pryor brought this up, does the grant program do detriment to a lot of the rural counties?
I think it was a flawed program.
The unemployment rate jumped to 4.2 percent February 2008. February 2009, it had gone up to 8.7 percent. February 2010, it is 11.1 percent, ...
But we should never, never lose focus on the student.
This needs to be changed.
You are going to get less actionable intelligence than if you did not do so.
You declared in this Committee directly that it was going to be tried in New York, and you defended that as an appropriate way.