My hope is that we can move your nomination through the Committee and through the Senate as quickly as possible because ...
We probably do not do that enough in the other committees, so we thank the people behind you.
I hope you will not hesitate to let this Committee know.
The Department of the Treasury, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Justice would be three other major par...
Mr. Beers, thank you for your testimony today, for your willingness to serve.
The position will have no operational authority.
If confirmed, you are going to be in a truly critical position for our homeland security.
This is an absolutely vital program to protecting America, and I look forward to working together with you.
I was personally very relieved to see that it did not happen, at least not in what I read.
But there was no reference to the presidential election in that briefing that you received?
Rand Beers is a highly qualified nominee with a record of more than 30 years of public service.
If you are confirmed, you will be in charge of the cyber security effort for the Department of Homeland Security.
It is the view in the White House that the Department of Homeland Security will continue to play an absolutely essential...
It is hard for cyber security to work without electricity.
I have long been dismayed by the myriad ways that government agencies have repeatedly time and again egregiously failed ...
These pernicious trends must be reversed.
I hope to learn today what practices the DOT is using to assist small business contractors.
So the key question I pose this morning is why, since we have a 23 percent contracting goal, are only 10.3 percent of th...