I would also like to indicate I asked you and we need to talk about this not here but in another venue, to talk about wh...
the Coast Guard, in my view, actually needs reinforcement, not retrenchment
We must build on that investment.
I think that any fair assessment of its record in those 7 years would be positive, including a great number of notable s...
We will wait just a minute because I have been told Senator McCain is outside in the hallway.
I am, therefore, very concerned that the number of Border Patrol agents would decrease next year for the first time if t...
Can I assume that you had the same reaction Senator Collins and I did, which was the fact that there were 200,000 people...
I think that is a mistake given the 31-percent reduction the program suffered in fiscal year 2010
I presume that if the decision was made to take the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials out of New York City and, for instance...
if there is anything we can do legislatively to support that effort, we would be happy to do so.
The bottom line, as I said at the beginning, I think this budget continues the Department moving forward.
We must ensure that the Department's budget priorities are aligned to counter the threat that we face from a determined ...
I will tell you they are astounding and unsettling because they say that the Department of Homeland Security now has jus...
the budget cuts the spending on cybersecurity by 5 percent
And there have even been intimations that there has been a decision not to go forward with the trials in New York City.
To me this is a shocking and unacceptable number because Federal full-time employees generally actually cost less than c...
the numbers here are astounding, and obviously, if you have a short-term need for an employee, then it makes sense to do...
I also support the President's request for $53 million for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to acquire handheld or ...
