Martha McSally

So, fiscal year 2018, Dr. Brinsfield, I mean, so you are basically saying, for the next year-and-a-half we can expect DHS to stay with the status quo?

The perfect being the enemy of the good, you know, being our constant challenge here.

So, time line-wise for any of this, can we--I don't want to be holding my breath.

We can all agree we need to make improvements, I think, to our current detection system, that we rolled out BioWatch in a hurry, and so that comes with limitations.

The threat is real. We know terrorist groups, like ISIS, have an interest in utilizing biological agents in their attacks.

A bio-attack could cause illness or death in hundreds of thousands of people.

We know terrorist groups like ISIS have an interest in utilizing biological agents in their attacks.

We have just got, you know, bureaucracy and stovepipes and information sharing that we have got to figure out how to speed that up.

Again, this is information sharing within one organization where the CBP guys checking him when he came in didn't have access that he didn't have a current I-20 on file.

We are going to be using those more intensively in a more strategic and targeted way.

ISIS is moving at the speed of broadband while we are moving at the speed of bureaucracy.

I have been extremely critical about the military campaign against ISIS.

I am deeply concerned about the lack of using American air power for all it brings to the fight.

I feel like part of our challenge is we are stuck in a counterinsurgency mindset, and although we need to have a force on the ground afterwards, we need to take them out as a state, not as a counterinsurgency.

I would like to know how quickly you are going to be able to implement that.

What do we need to do to get it done?

We want to do what we can in order to streamline getting good people into these jobs.

Are you guys willing to sit down with us and Douglas to try and figure out a way forward on this?

But we are the Congress, so we can adjust things.

But this little town is dependent on this port, as well.

No plan inside the Beltway is going to survive first contact with the enemy.

It is critical that we stand by our good ally, Israel, at this challenging time.

I would like to further have us look into whether this is an interpretation of law or whether we need a clarification in the law.

Absolutely. We are going to do a second round of questions.

When we tell people to evacuate, we say take your pets with you.