I urge the committee to continue that trend.

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

No soldier should ever have to be concerned with having a roof over his or her head.

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.

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.

Yet streamlining operations can at times be distinguished from reducing the resources of Federal employees so drastically that they can't perform their jobs effectively and provide needed Government services.

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

We must resist the temptation to attack either of these programs as a means to solve our budget problems.

I consider that statement to be a failure of leadership.

That practice must end.

I do not believe that the president's budget takes us there. In fact, I believe it undercuts that investment.