I thank the subcommittee for supporting BVPA funding in the past and ask that the program be funded at or more than the level recommended in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget, or $24 million.

I genuinely appreciate this opportunity to submit testimony in support of a program key to law enforcement officer safety: the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Act (BVPA).

I strongly urge that the Violence Against Women Act come up on the floor so we can look at the issues and debate them in an open and public forum. If people have amendments to either add or subtract from the bill or improve the bill, let's…

when the issue is related to public integrity, and on the issues related to the Stevens matter, this is a bipartisan set of requests

60 percent of FBI's request is in the area of national security.

I'm concerned that the Congress doesn't have a sense of urgency about cyber, but I'm also concerned that the Congress does not have a sense of urgency about the threat of sequester.

I think we need Guantanamo Bay. I think we need the ability to hold people that are suspected terrorists...

I want to know how the FBI is protecting Americans from violent crime and also fraud in their communities.

I have four criteria. Our judicial nominee must have absolutely high personal integrity, must bring judicial competence and temperament, have a commitment to core constitutional principles, and a history of civic engagement in Maryland.

I come to the floor today to fight for a paper company in western Maryland called Luke Mill. I am fighting for the jobs it creates in western Maryland, and I am fighting to make sure its workers have a government on their side. I have…

First of all, Federal prisons. As I look at the Department's budget, almost one-third of the Justice Department money is going into Federal prisons.

We must have public integrity. We also must have an independent judiciary.

Before I recess the subcommittee, I want to conclude the hearing the way I began.

We need to maintain the collection of critical foreign intelligence and provide certainty to intelligence professionals in that regard.

The GAO report raises issues related to duplication of services, and I'd like to have your reaction to the GAO report on how we can streamline, get more efficiencies.

The record will be kept open for questions, and we then ask the Department to respond within 30 days.

Do we have enough money in the right places to do the job to protect our communities?

In terms of accountability, as you know, I want to ask a question about Sentinel, on where you are in achieving the programmatic goals and keeping it within a budgetary framework.

Your leadership in the appropriations action brought all of us together.

We, too, want to do business in the subcommittee at the speed of business.

60 percent of FBI's request is in the area of national security.

Why invent the cure for cancer? Why invent something new that will be Internet-driven, when you can just steal it?

We don't want a sequester either. Now, we might disagree on a line item or an agency here or there, but we know a sequester is not in the interest of the country over the long haul.

The coast is part of our heritage, part of our identity, but it's also a big part of our economy.

We want NASA to be an economic engine, out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building what we need to do to keep America pre-eminent in space.