I appreciate your answers to these questions.

Thank you for your collaboration and what Senator Nelson describes as a 30-year-old process to produce highly qualified nominees for the Federal bench from Florida.

Thank you, Senator Grassley.

I am certain this Committee will give these nominees a full and fair consideration.

Information sharing is critical to cybersecurity. It must be done in a way that protects privacy while providing security for our Nation.

I would like to support that and work closely with you on it because, at least my very local experience, there was an unintended result that there were people being detained longer than needed to be and in ways that were not entirely…

alternatives to detention have been proven to be significantly less costly, incomparably effective in terms of our larger goals of deporting those who ultimately need to be deported.

The private sector has repeatedly raised to me that they are willing, even eager, to pay overtime.

I think we have some international obligations at issue here as well, and I would welcome a chance to be supportive when you complete your----

We are going to make another attempt at legislation this year.

I would just urge you--I think you are very effective in reaching out to private industry, and I would urge you to work with them.

Across a dozen projects that I was directly involved in managing, we prioritized those investments that had a payback timeline less than 10 years.

We typically look at a 10-year budget window.

I appreciate your graciousness and your leadership of this subcommittee.

I suspect you will find that one of the highest rate of return investments you can make will over the short run and the long run be investments in energy efficiency.

If there has been a GAO study on the subject in the past, I would certainly welcome it.

There are billions of dollars in identified savings in energy efficiency in Federal buildings, billions, that are not being achieved because of how it is scored.

There is broad interest here on ESPCs and scoring and how to make them apply.