That is not a formula for success--especially when they are going to have to rely on the sheriff to give them backup if they encounter an event.

The bill that will inevitably get signed into law by the President--hopefully, in the next couple of weeks--will put demands on you to inform the public as well as inform this Committee and Congress about what those threats are.

One of the biggest concerns from the Border Patrol agents I talked to when I was at Portal is communications.

I want to reiterate what you were talking about earlier, which is that there are tasks that are being performed by guys and gals wearing badges that really could be done by other professionals--especially as it relates to the UACs issue.

We owe it to them to give them the best equipment.

I think we can find some good folks right there.

Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to my Deputy Chief of Staff Stephanie Schisler, who is retiring this week after 41 years of service in the Senate. She has been working here longer than 99 of the current Members of the Senate…

I think it is critical that we look for efficiencies, but I am always reminded of the story...

I think we want people to feel like this is not them asking for a job; this is them getting recruited to a job.

I mean, think, if you are sitting there and all of a sudden out of the blue you are trying to decide what to do, and you get an email from someone saying, 'Hey, I heard you are an aerospace graduate at UND. NASA has some openings.'

I am very pleased that finally, after a lot of planning and a lot of discussion, we are holding this hearing entitled 'Understanding the Millennial Perspective in Deciding to Pursue and Remain in Federal Employment.'

Every month Senator Carper goes to the floor and puts up a picture and talks about an enormous contribution of Federal employee has made to the safety or security or just to improving the quality of life in America.

I think we wait around for it to come to us, is my point, and we do not do enough to reach out.

But I think sometimes you take someone from Chicago and say here you are in Cavalier, North Dakota, and that is culture shock.

If in 2019, 30 percent of the workforce that is working today is not working, everybody retires when they can retire. Are you ready for that?

So how would you effectuate that, how would you implement that in Border Patrol?

You could really make a case that is a national security imperative, because you do not want those same folks using those incredible skills to go do something else.

I would say there is no more critical place where you need to do that, because we absolutely need the best and the brightest in this terrific challenge that we have on cybersecurity.