The push for across-the-board cuts is misguided.

We should stop paying companies for leaving the United States of America with tax advantages and give those same tax breaks to companies that make in America.

These cuts represent losses to overall manpower.

The president's budget sacrifices Einsteinian science at the political alter of trying to compete with the private sector.

I urge the committee to continue that trend.

I think we are going to be here time and time again--it is like shining a sneaker--trying to see what DHS can do.

Those jurisdictional lines have to be combined.

Until we can start to--how can Congress approach this if things are so fractured?

I have said this time and again, both on and off the committee, shortsighted plans that eliminate job-creating programs and compromise our safety for the sake of immediate savings are not always the answer.

I will just close and say that we are looking at duplication, we should look at ourselves first right here in Congress.

Thank you for having this hearing, which I think is a timely examination of the ways to ensure that our scarce Homeland Security funds are being utilized properly.

I don't think I can do my job with the current situation as effectively as I can.