How important is it for us to provide you with more consistent and better funding over a longer period of time to allow the Department to plan and execute these projects effectively?

it is really, in my view, unconscionable and we should move forward with that funding.

I look forward to catching up with you and seeing how it is going.

engaged oversight, Senator, to read our reports, look at our reports.

What can we do to bolster you and strengthen the ability of you and your teams to do your job as watchdogs.

It took nearly 2 years until these investigations were fully resolved, and during that 2 years, the Archives was deprived of a permanent Inspector General.

We have to make sure that the money that we are spending, the taxpayer money that we are spending, is cost effective.

ensure that the FBI complies with the Section 218 provision that the Congress put in place in the Appropriations Act.

I just want to get to the bottom of this and see if we cannot avoid that brick wall and if we cannot actually get this done this year.

it is funding for our overseas contingency operation, Operation Inherent Resolve, for which we have joint oversight responsibilities.

That is remarkable.

I believe there are at least two off of that list that we wrote to the President about some time ago that are still situations where the IG is there in an acting position.

we were able to accomplish a good deal, sometimes just by writing a letter, sometimes just by announcing a hearing.

we learned how to leverage the effectiveness of a small Subcommittee by working with the full Committee.

I hope this year we are going to take up again Homeland Security legislation, immigration reform, I hope, border security legislation.

Mr. Chairman and colleagues, we may want to do again what we did a year or so ago and keep raising this as an issue, try to establish a sense of urgency, and I would hope that the other colleagues on our Committee would like to join us in…

we need an integrity fund, which is what I was saying at the beginning.

Nobody wants us to waste their money.