I appreciate the Administration's proposal to add $900 million to key aviation security programs.

I believe that the Department of Homeland Security plays a role in helping to protect other civilian agencies.

I have always felt that it would be hard to make much progress on comprehensive immigration reform until the Congress and, frankly, our constituents felt that we had done all we could to secure our borders.

Let us do it together. Let us count ourselves and reapportion the House and get all the benefits from an accurate count that we can through our own participation.

I fully support these unprecedented improvements in the screening of applicants.

We all know not everybody in this country speaks English.

Some of the people that might be hired, you brought on board, say, in February, might not necessarily be still there in March, April, or May?

I think that, on the one hand, I think that cost controls are always an issue.

In the past, I am told that the Census Bureau has worked with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to refrain from conducting raids during response follow-up.

I think one thing that we have consistently commended the Bureau for is taking on a more sophisticated or rigorous risk management approach to the Decennial.

Well, that is encouraging to hear.

It is five people. It is not five houses, but five people.

Probably some older men, too?

Good. I have some, and again, thanks so much for the work that you and your colleagues have done in the IG's office.

Let me note that the safety of the American public and of our staff is of paramount concern to me during this process.

I think that the other thing that probably carries over from one census to another that is a strength of the Bureau is their workforce.

We are going to invest our money where it is going to be real hard to drag people out.

In my view, it is not, in the big picture, not an enlightened position to take.

OK. Thanks for that clarification.

I think the IT problems that we have all talked about, and Mr. Goldenkoff alluded to in his statement are far and beyond the most troubling aspects of this Decennial.

I think the idea that we are not energy independent, not even close to it, in fact we are going the wrong way, is not a good thing for our country.

I would urge you to be as energetic as you possibly can in enforcement in those areas because by exporting the pollution to other States these companies have taken themselves out of the loop of local consequence.

I have great concerns about losing the deal that everyone embraced around cars including a road map for automobile manufacturing for this country.

Global warming is real. If we do not get our act together there will be devastating impacts for our kids and our grandchildren.

I think we can agree on the idea that we have this huge dependence on fossil fuels, and it is not a good thing for our country.