I appreciated your remarks during the hearing about USDA's $75 million investment in technical assistance for underserve...
I think we classify too much.
Intelligence isn't any good unless it's shared.
There was intelligence somewhere in the system about potential violence, but it just never got to the Capitol Police.
The fact remains that if we had the Southern border under control, we would be using the $850 million designated for tes...
I will tell you that our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 millio...
That makes no sense to me and seems very shortsighted.
I don't believe that we are in the position that we are in now due to a lack of funding, but rather a lack of planning.
I just think it is important that we see it and we have to try to rise above this kind of behavior.
Over the past 2 years, Congress has appropriated $82.6 billion specifically for testing.
Has any of that money been used for non-testing related purposes at the border?
Well, I will tell you, having visited the Southern border in late March, testing was being done, but people had been the...
I hope that there is a close relationship between your Department and the Architect of the Capitol.
Are we working on preexisting coordination and communication plans so that we do not have to make it up on the fly?
I hope that extends to the intelligence side as well.
Please convey the deep appreciation and thanks from all of us that we care about what they do.
We have to have people that are thinking the unthinkable and saying, okay, what happens if?
I have been surprised there has not been more discussion of physical security. It is pretty easy to secure a building th...
