The President has actually said--here is his idea. He has given us a big idea, and basically it says that $2 trillion is part of the overseas profits of American companies, that they are just not bringing it home.

We are trying to impart a sense of urgency. God knows we need to.

The next challenge is to figure out how to pay for it.

Mr. President, I thank the Republican whip for those words and for his work on this. I would just close with this thought: Whenever I talk to people who have been married a long time--like 50, 60, 70 years--I always ask them, what is the…

Mr. President, while the Senator from Texas is still on the floor, let me say, if I could--he mentioned the word ``trust'' a number of times. It is an important word in Congress. One of my favorite sayings is ``Integrity--if you have it…

Has a major IT business case been prepared as OMB requires for IT projects?

Are there additional tools or enhancements that you need in order to deal with the critical issues that are now well and widely known?

If OPM had completed its planned IT upgrades, would this breach have been prevented?

I also urge us to put this in the context of larger cybersecurity challenges that face our Government and our society as a whole.

I am eager to follow up with you on that and to get some reassurance about the swiftness with which gravely concerned Federal employees of all backgrounds are able to get updates.

I am particularly concerned about Federal law enforcement officers and their families, because they have credible reasons to be concerned.

My question was not whether it would have prevented the breach. It was whether it would have prevented the accessibility and use of personally identifying information once the system was breached.

I look forward to exploring that further with you in the next round of questions.

In response to the IG audit, one of the concerns was why you would give a sole-source contract...

Would it be reasonable for us to have expected that OPM could achieve data security given the resources they currently have available to them?

We also need to address the late-breaking inspector general audit that expresses concerns about OPM's IT modernization project.

We have seen significant data breaches for Home Depot, JPMorgan, Target, Sony, Neiman Marcus, just to name a few.

We are here today, as the chairman has laid out, to review information technology spending and data security at the Office of Personnel Management.