It is critical that the FBI consolidate its operations to optimize the agency's ability to meet its vital mission.

Our goal is about fairness of process, to make sure that there is the most open competition possible.

I think it offers a competitive combination, as Mr. Hoyer has indicated, that meets the requirements of the FBI.

As Mr. Hoyer has indicated, the University of Maryland, Bowie State University, also provides nationally ranked disciplines in criminal justice.

I want to make sure that we are also following the recommendations that were laid out in the GSA report...

If we expect NASA to do great things, as I know its employees can because they do so each and every day, then let's give it the resources it needs and when it needs them.

Chairman Palazzo, as we start our first Subcommittee hearing of the 113th Congress, I'd just like to say how much I am looking forward to working with you.

Our agency has to reflect that future.

Thank you, Chairman Palazzo, as we begin our first Subcommittee hearing of the 113th Congress, and I just want to say how much I am looking forward to working with you and with the Members of our Subcommittee.

If we expect NASA to do great things, we know that its employees have to have the kind of stability.

NASA is not a business and can't operate as a business.

I care deeply and passionately about my environment, and not because of a prophet of doom, not because I am a socialist, not because I am an alarmist or an extremist.