Barbara Mikulski

And that 62 percent in NOAA really goes primarily to satellites, and it also goes to Weather Service.

Well, Madam Secretary, thank you for that testimony.

NOAA is important to all of us who are coastal Senators.

We believe in private property and that if you invented it, you should get to keep it and make sure that nobody steals it.

We believe the Inspector Generals--this is a bipartisan approach that--should have access to the information, compliant with existing law.

We want to protect the Constitution, we want to protect the people against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The heroin crisis is sweeping America.

Both she and then Senator Cantwell... have spent a lot of time really on what is happening to Native Americans in this country and particularly the women and the children.

America doesn't want a national police force. But we have an FBI that provides national resources and deals with Federal crime.

The biggest threat to your momentum would be not a stringent budget in fiscal year 2016, but a sequester that just goes across the board

I think it's a bargain for what we get for $8 billion, when you think of the magnitude, of the number of agents, the analysts, the support staff, 60 places around the world, 56 field offices here.

I think it was organized in the way our priorities are in terms of our national security threats, our criminal threats, support to our partners, particularly in our country, and those that are around the world.

Chairwoman Mikulski, we are grateful for the leadership that you and this subcommittee have provided to the FBI.

I'm committed to working with you and the chair to ensure that we're targeting limited resources in a manner that safeguards taxpayer dollars while preserving public safety.

We look forward this year to moving ahead in an expeditious way to move this so that we could avoid that kind of crisis in budgeting that has been characteristic of the Congress for more now than 5 years.

Thanks to the work, bipartisan and bicameral, Senator Murray and Congressman Ryan were able to give us a budget and a top line cancelling the sequester, which had a draconian impact on both the function of core agencies like the FBI and on…

We are obsessed with the safety--and I know you are.

We cannot tolerate this in this committee. We have to get value for the dollar, be accountable to the taxpayers.

No veteran should stand in line to have their disability benefit processed.

Let me join some of my colleagues on our skepticism.

I think we have the right people who have the spirit of reform and transformation.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing.

The Federal Government has spent more than $600 billion on IT investments over the last decade.

I intend to be a not-so-quiet guardian of the purse.

Part of the job of the Appropriations Committee is to be a quiet guardian of the purse.