Do you agree that there is a risk that sending more troops could just push militants over the border?

I do not doubt that at all, but I am looking for some appropriate trigger for this kind of search, which I think is serious business, and for consistency between the different agencies.

This is unacceptable, and that is why I am planning to reintroduce the Travelers' Privacy Protection Act in the coming months.

I think this is unacceptable, especially because most of the law enforcement communities that have signed on to these agreements do not have policies prohibiting racial profiling.

I am deeply disappointed with the policies the Department adopted and, in particular, the refusal to adopt any sort of standard for searching U.S. citizens at the border.

I would urge that the guidelines reflect that purpose, which is to get at the more serious offenses.

I guess my only point would be, not so much that we can get rid of every militant in Pakistan, but that they do move against all the different pockets that exist.

there is $5 billion available to states and that money is very targeted so that it does go directly to families in need.

Oregon has been hit very hard by the recession.

I want to thank Chairman Spratt for your leadership to secure this needed benefit in the federal appropriation.

I guess, just having listened to the four of you, the conclusion that I have come to, looking at these charts and graphs--and correct me if I am wrong--is that basically we have a kind of a safety net for people who are unemployed, who…

Averages are not a good thing. They are damn statistics.

The reality is that it is impossible to have a work-based safety net without work.

Faced with insurmountable odds and cumulative 3-month job losses of 2.1 million in early February, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Well, thank you, Chairman Spratt and Ranking Member Ryan, and members of the Budget Committee, for participating in this important and timely hearing.

the way we administer TANF is very haphazard as a safety net versus how we administer other safety net programs

Several witnesses testified before this committee that the majority of people we're currently fighting in Afghanistan do not have an international terrorist agenda.

I know you're aware of that, but we have to be so careful not to minimize the importance of that.