Bill Keating

Unfortunately, there are some among them that use their position of public trust for their own personal gain.

There are over 220,000 Department of Homeland Security employees who work every day to secure our homeland from dangerous threats and natural disasters.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding today's hearing examining the ethical standards at the Department of Homeland Security.

I am therefore pleased that representatives from TSA, CBP, and ICE are testifying this morning and look forward to hearing from them regarding steps that are being taken to remedy this situation.

Our dependence on technology is pervasive and growing.

Cyber threat is a threat that knows no limit, and has no boundaries.

Cybersecurity, as acknowledged by President Obama, is one of the most serious economic and National security threats our Nation faces.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. There's been a lot of talk about kick the can down the road and kick the can down the road. I want to know what road that is? The road I know, the road that gave me the American Dream, was the road to an…

I am deeply troubled by the Department's ranking in both the Office of Personnel Management Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and the Partnership for Public Service's Best Places to Work rankings.

Unless each Congress--regardless of party affiliation--is forced to make the decisions necessary to create a balanced budget, the temptation will always be there for Congress to spend more than it receives in revenues.

Our nation faces many difficult decisions in the coming years, and Congress faces great pressure to spend beyond its means.

I re-introduced legislation, H.J.Res. 2, to deliver to Congress the necessary pressure to rein in spending.

Americans must exercise restraint with their own funds, then government officials must be required to exercise an even higher standard when spending other peoples' hard-earned income.

I do not believe that this budget lives up to that promise.

A reduction of $1.3 billion in shipbuilding means fewer ships, less maintenance on our current fleet.

It is vital that as America's representatives we meet the requirements of our military.

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

We must protect the earned benefits in Social Security and Medicare, and ensure programs like Medicaid stay strong--not cut them in order to maintain tax breaks for the richest Americans.

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.

It seems to me that we ought to stop paying companies for leaving the United States of America with tax advantages.

To address the nearly 13 million Americans who are still out of work, I have introduced the emergency jobs to restore the American Dream Act.

The choices we make as a Congress can either right these past wrongs or double down on the current path with inequality.

Deficits were not an accident or unexpected like an earthquake or a tornado.

I ask this committee to use part of that money to help forgive certain student loans on millions of Americans who are struggling with student loan debt.

I would also ask that this committee consider fully funding and restoring cuts to the Workforce Investment Act because there are many jobs right now in this country that go unfilled because we need people who are trained to be hired into…