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A top priority of both organizations should be ensuring that not one of these VA whistleblower complaints goes unresolved.

Unfortunately, as we have seen all too many times in the past that there has not been the followup necessary, and those months at delay could mean another veteran that has been left untreated or another veteran that takes their own life…

I'm with the American people. They're very, very strong about the notion that immigration is a very important issue to them.

I will not question what the minority leader just said, but it seems to me we ought to know who that Senator is besides the minority leader because Senator Wyden and I have worked very hard over the last 10 years, and we finally got done…

May I ask on whose behalf the minority leader is objecting? Is it on his own behalf or on behalf of another Senator?

There is so much duplication within the DOD, and I think that we do need to hold people accountable and streamline and find efficiencies where we can.

I really think it is time that Congress starts holding someone responsible.

If they happen to see that criminals are coming out of that profile, are you prohibited, then, to give greater scrutiny, by law, to that profile?

So, as law enforcement officers, are you prohibited from looking for a person based upon a profile?

Against the law. Could you cite the laws that prohibit law enforcement from profiling?

Violent criminals can come from just about anywhere.

It's curious to me, when I look at the report from 2015, from Syria, 1,573 Sunni Muslims admitted under that and 29 Christians.

Would that be an indicator, then, that...

Can we recognize that the population of our male prisons are substantially greater than the populations of our female prisons?

Have you looked at how to compress that so that we can get that adjudicated in a quick fashion? We know if we don't send them back, those that need to go back, they are going to keep coming.

I want to ask you on the record here, if you would produce the records, not only for children that apply for asylum, for all the asylees that apply, I'd like to see the results of that, the adjudication process, where it is, how many are…

I can't exactly determine whether that's--if I can match up fiscal years.

I think it illustrates the point that the Supreme Court wants us to have bright rules so that the law enforcement officer in the field knows what to do.