I'll pledge to you to work in a bipartisan way, because it does have to--those acts were both bipartisan;

I appreciate Senator Harkin bringing that up.

I appreciate Secretary Solis and Mr. Geithner and the others who are on your board;

I think we ought to look seriously at working with you to come up with a board structure that makes sense in the challenging times ahead;

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing.

The thing that worries me about that is the effectiveness of a teleconference versus a personal contact one-on-one.

That just appears to me on the surface to say that we do not have a very good early evaluation system before they get to the determination system.

I would encourage you, if they want to do it, to see if Fort Gordon and the Charlie Norwood VA in Augusta, GA, are not a part of that.

I think circuit riders are an excellent solution to what otherwise could be a problem of a more impersonal evaluation.

That's a good decision.

The 9/11 Commission, in 2007, asked TSA to develop a CrewPASS program.

My last question and/or comment is this: other than the pat-down, the biggest amount of feedback I get are young children.