I hope you will not leave here discouraged. I hope you will leave here encouraged, both of you.

What can we do to help you do your jobs better?

I think we have a hearing for her next week, and my hope is that we will be able to move that nomination quickly.

If a program is not working, we should not just keep throwing good money after bad.

the time has come to grant status to those who wish to enter to our country legally, to work lawfully, to pay taxes

The point that you make about the need for some certainty, some predictability with respect to funding is very well taken.

The Department of Homeland Security should be playing a pretty vital role in the security of this Nation.

unless any reforms are resourced appropriately, DHS components will be saddled with an impossible mission in the critical area of border security

There is clearly more to do. It is not a time to rest on our laurels.

Information sharing is an issue that has been with us since September 11, 2001

I do not agree with everything in that bill, and I know my colleague here, Dr. Coburn, and I suspect Senator Johnson do not agree with everything either.

I think there may be some utility in looking at what we were able to do, and I realize that was a really unusual way to amend the Stafford Act.

Make our country safe and secure. Do it in a way that is consistent with the Constitution and the rule of law.

I think we need to bring that type of dedication, those types of private sector disciplines to government.

I will not ask if anyone wants to move that the nominations be closed.

We should do a top-to-bottom review of the Department and try to figure out how we go about reauthorizing the Department.

When you jammed together 22 different agencies 10 years ago, different cultures, different financial systems, different accounting systems, it is not easy.

I supported the immigration reform bill. I did so. I was not convinced that we really need to add 20,000 Border Patrol officers down on the border given how many we have there.