We are on a roll here.

We do not create jobs. What we do is help to create a nurturing environment for job creation.

the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership is a good example of bipartisan cooperation.

We have to get it started somewhere.

The whole notion of retention of proceeds, as I explained before, I think is critical.

You can do it, we can help--just like at Home Depot.

Four billion, that is a lot of money.

In the Navy, when we were doing the hard things, we would sometimes liken it to changing the course of an aircraft carrier.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman.

I have talked, I think, to every previous Secretary of Homeland Security, and I came here not thinking St. E's made a whole lot of sense.

I am encouraged here to give it another shot and work together.

What can we do to help in a particular way to save money in what you are doing?

I would just tell you that I would be willing to be able to join you in that journey and try to figure out a way that we can get this resolved.

Tell us very directly what we need to do, what we on this Committee and we in the Congress need to do to actually turn the course of this aircraft carrier, turn this carrier more quickly.

Every past Secretary of Homeland Security has said, 'Do this, actually make this investment, and over time you will save not just hundreds of millions of dollars; you will save billions of dollars for taxpayers over 30 years.'

Keep doing oversight.

Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

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