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

I come to the floor to speak about the issue of funding for Homeland Security. However, I wish to note and acknowledge the comments just made by my colleague from Tennessee, Senator Alexander, the chair of the HELP Committee. I couldn't…

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.

if we are going to lift the caps in defense to defend America, there is a lot of defense right here in our country for our communities.

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

Let's have the right resources, and let's make sure we don't do another sequester where FBI agents were digging into their pocket to pay for gasoline.

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

I am glad I went into orbit.

We could get beyond the petty politics that were the obstruction to that confirmation.

I would hope because there is bipartisan effort in this area in terms of looking at what we need to do to safely reduce the prison population.

But her mantra and her mission has been the phrase that America is open for business.

I supported that policy, and I supported it as somebody who started her career as a social worker.

I think also it is a tribute to really bipartisanship, and I know really very early in my Senate career, I became the chairman of the Subcommittee on VA/HUD, of which NASA was part of.

Do you think that there should be mandatory training in the areas of ethnic and racial bias as well as also on the use of force?

What we did initially to fix Hubble was because we worked on a bipartisan basis, and the efforts of Senator Garn and with Senator Garn, we had the credibility, although I had the gavel, they had the credibility, and then NASA had the…

What is the FBI doing to stop human and sex trafficking in the United States? What additional resources are needed by the FBI to put traffickers out of business?

The community feels they get a lot of money from the Feds, and we do not have the necessary things.

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.

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

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

I think there is a real bipartisan interest on this subcommittee around this issue.

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

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

I do hope again for both this conversation and ongoing the examination of the so-called broken window policy.