Mike Thompson: “I suggest Congress is not going to lose its oversight. It has been under Congress's oversight, I might add, that this…”

“I suggest Congress is not going to lose its oversight. It has been under Congress's oversight, I might add, that this duplication, waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, and civil service system, which the Brookings Institution and representatives there say fails and underwhelms in every task it takes--it has been under our supervision that that has been created. With the appropriations process and the oversight process, if we do it correctly--not the way we have necessarily done it in the past; if we do it correctly--Congress will have a firm hand as we go down the road in the creation and the implementation of this new Department. It is not because we are moving too fast or because of any structural deficiencies that Congress has not had the proper hand. It is because we just simply have not done it. I suggest it is about time we did it. The creation of this Department is the first step in that regard.”