But the natural place that a citizen who sees something and wants to say something will call is the local police department.

But my point is that we need public buy-in. It is not just making people feel better, Mr. Hayden.

So how can we better deal with this part of the illegal immigration problem?

Congress has resisted reorganizing its own institutions, and streamlining congressional oversight of the intelligence community and the Department of Homeland Security would go far toward advancing unity of effort in the intelligence…

This is the key goal of comprehensive cyber security legislation that Chairman Lieberman, Senator Carper, and I have co-authored.

I promise you that we will take this on in the Committee as another kind of oversight responsibility

That ought to get our attention, and some of those--am I right?--are not that complicated to make, to bring together.

this is a journey without a destination point. In other words, we are just going to have to keep getting better and better and better as time goes on.

This is a unique time to solve this problem and create a nationwide public safety wireless broadband network.

They view Islamist extremism as regressive.

I agree with you totally. It has been very productive.

the bill that we put in encouraging the See Something, Say Something approach, which is really an important idea

the threat from al-Qaeda, related terrorist groups, and individual adherents to violent Islamist extremism persists to this day.

I fear that right now the odds are that they can probably avoid detection, whether they are here for evil reasons or, as most of them probably are, just here to work and make a living.

Should we be admitting 50,000 people over here to our country?

But there ought to be somebody in charge.

Senator Lieberman and I continue to work to expand our "See Something, Say Something" law.

Our strategy must match our means to two ends: Dismantling the al-Qaeda network and prevailing in the longer term over the ideology that gives rise to Islamist terrorism.

What happened in Tunisia and Egypt is really a very loud outcry by--they are not just moderate.

The terrorist threat will be with us far into the future, demanding that we be ever vigilant.

Total operational control over our border is effectively an unreachable goal.

And you think that is an achievable goal?

I would urge that this happen--that the National Intelligence Program be taken out of the Defense Department and added to the DNI's budget.

I want to include, without objection, in the record, in which he discusses the importance of allocating the D-block to first responders, and I agree with him totally.

I fully accept that ultimately the will of the people expressed through their elections has to drive what we do.