A final point is that the layer--the security through layered operations, beginning way off in Kazakhstan all the way back home, becomes really important.

Do you have adequate funding to carry out the tasks that you have been assigned?

These threats are real, they have to be addressed.

the inability or the lack of sharing of information between the various elements of the safety net.

These kinds of hearings are very, very important, and particularly important that we do the combined hearing that the two chairmen have put together here.

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