I would much rather be up here asking for a budget request versus a fee increase, but it is the only option I have.

In a biological event, decision makers need information quickly, but it must also be accurate.

How close are you to solving it? And how much is it going to cost?

All truck cargo coming in?

For any one of you, how much do you use social media to kind of gauge where you should be putting your efforts or trying to evaluate or determine a risk?

housing is absolutely critical.

Right, I understand. It is scanning. It is a variety of technologies.

Under Secretary, DHS is working on getting the biometric exit system implemented, and it is something that we need in order to enforce against visa overstays.

Thanks for your entrepreneurship. It is a great story and we want to see more of that, not just in North Dakota, but across the country.

How do you determine, then, whether you are going to continue a project or when you discontinue?

We will want to get, from both of you, your estimate of the timeline to get where Dr.

It is good to hear, and it is good you are getting those results. Good for you.

That sounds like a handoff.

So whether it is air, whether it is seaborne, whether it is train, whether it is truck, all cargo is scanned.

I think you need to be. It is a holistic approach where sometimes you can miss the forest for the trees.

For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we come talk to Penny Pritzker, talk to anyone that I can, Maria Contreras-Sweet, about rural…

I think it is interesting when you look around this podium here to see that there is not a state that is not impacted by disaster.

One of the criticisms that I frequently hear, especially of the SBA programs, is the criticism that you have--it seems like there is one hand taking, or one hand extended while the other hand is taking.