I want you to know that throughout your agency, there are what I call the worker bees, those wonderful people that under the old pay scale were the GS-5s through the 15s.

We've got to protect the American people by making sure the FBI has the right tools, and that's technology.

Thank you very much, and the record will so show that.

Mr. Secretary, are you confident that, number one, the census is going to happen?

The administration's announcement that the census would receive direct oversight by the White House staff is troubling.

Thank you for your job, thank you for your service, and let's go where no Senate's gone before, and get this job done.

I worry about the FBI in so many ways, about having the resources.

Well, Mr. Secretary, this is terrific because, number one, I am glad you are taking it so seriously and are so hands-on on it.

The census needs to be done on time and it's had significant technological failure and will need to be more manpower intensive.

But Mr. Attorney General, are you saying that there is no immediate or imminent release of prisoners who would be placed on the shores of the United States of America?

What we need to do is look at the mission of the agency, what it is that the President wants to do, but also we need to look at the three R's, which is to reinvigorate our Civil Service.

I'm really proud of NASA and what they've done in this.

I think the fear that many have, whether they are Governors or those of us who are elected national officials, is that we don't wake up one day and we hear that there are 100 people coming.

You know, everybody dumped buckets of money into the banks because they said we need their talent.

I believe there is another 'pandemic' in the United States, and that is the insatiable demand for drugs.

We will support you in your people. We're going to support you in your technology.

The FBI is one of the few agencies that operates in three enclaves in terms of the net: unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret.

We both have a big investment in NOAA. So we look forward to working with you.