I do not mind paying some extra taxes, I just do not want you to waste my money.

Do not want to waste money on an audit. I understand that.

Make us a guided missile in some of the stuff that you heard here.

We are an oversight Committee, as you know, and we are an authorizing Committee for Homeland Security Department.

We cannot, however, effectively identify areas to reduce spending if we do not know how much and where we are spending that money in the first place.

I like to say there are three things we need to do to continue making progress on deficit reduction.

We are going to try to get it hotlined and passed by unanimous consent, our data center legislation.

This is not an easy thing to do. It is a hard thing to do.

Some day, I would just love it if we held a hearing and the private sector shows up on these IT projects and says, we could really learn a lot from the government and maybe we could mentor them, or school them.

We try to do oversight. We try to do good oversight, not 'gotcha' oversight, but constructive oversight.

We reported a bill, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Act... to enhance the consolidation initiative and improve the quality of data.

What I do not want is for us, all of us, to lose focus on a good set of initiatives that are in place.

We are wasting more money now than we did back then on IT.

I think every Member of this Committee supports OMB's initiative and effort and wants it to succeed.

We need to go small. That is the big difference between government and the private sector.

One of the adages with respect to leadership is, do not just do as I say, do as I do.

Virginia is continually recognized as one of the top places to do business, and CNBC traditionally ranks us there.

I rise today to commend my colleagues in the Senate and House for coming together last month to pass the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, which is known as the DATA Act. The measure enjoyed near unanimous support in…

In my State, if Congress does not act to stabilize the Highway Trust Fund, we would see about half of our transportation budget disappear.

I have been pushing hard as an authorizer on the Environment and Public Works Committee, chair of the Transportation Infrastructure Subcommittee, pushing hard for us to include in our authorization bill a freight title.

I think Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are using non-scientific barriers or quotas to prohibit and restrict trade of U.S. poultry products to those countries.

We used to sell about 1 out of every 100 chickens we raised outside of the U.S.; today it is 20.

I just hope that opening up agricultural exports...specifically poultry exports...is a top priority for some of us on this committee.

I want to be sensitive to what you can say in a public setting.

I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Katherine M. O'Regan, of New York, to be an…