I understand from the Taxpayer Advocate that for every dollar spent on tax enforcement, we get $6 back.

I really want to appreciate you just showing up every day and trying to run this ship.

So do you have a freeze?

I would like to get you a letter on that and a letter from Eleanor Holmes Norton.

The Senate version of the Homeland Security bill cleared the House 257 to 167.

What is the impact of shrinking amount of money, both in the area of enforcement and then the investigation staff?

I was able to negotiate a 5-year delay with Treasury in terms of this move.

It is a freeze on replacement--so we are having----

as the vice chair of the Committee on Appropriations, I rise to speak on the Homeland Security funding bill. This morning the Senate moves to fulfill its responsibility--its national responsibility--to pass the Homeland Security bill which…

I've been NOAA satellite obsessed. Number one, because of the role they play in helping us predict the weather.

Well, my time is up, but I think it says we really need a different kind of coordination here.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for this hearing today and really bringing the full complement of Federal law enforcement before the subcommittee.

I know we are worried about our satellites, number one, not for the purposes of this hearing, it would be inappropriate, but we worry about the Chinese and what they are doing in terms of any satellite technology.

We are looking forward to your advice to that, and we know that the Judiciary Committee will also be doing it.

I think we need to be able to do that in three ways. Number one, give them respect.

the satellite program is near and dear to my heart, as it is to yours

I am frustrated that DOJ did not do the comprehensive thing. Law enforcement is a tool. We have to look at prevention, enforcement and interdiction, and then recovery, okay?

I appreciate that. And I think you see here a bipartisan support for the necessity of the satellites, but to make sure we're getting our money's worth.

We're going to follow up. Thank you for the great job you're doing.

That is a voluntary effort where police departments reach out to you, meaning the Attorney General.

it's a very serious and very important endeavor that we have

And, of course, for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), that wonderful lab in Ammendale that does this incredible forensics.

I also want to compliment you on the fact that we are going to continue the tradition of the subcommittee of a classified hearing after this.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Leahy, the gentleman from Vermont, about the need for reviewing sentencing reform.

Presuming this actually happens, do you believe the completion and successful launch and operation of the James Webb will secure America's preeminence in astronomy for the next 30 or 40 years?