One of my frustrations with the Department and, frankly, with the Bottom-Up Review is that there are longstanding problems, which precede this Administration, that the Department s...
I want to give you another example of an area that this Committee identified first in June 2008, again in 2009, and again, the two reports y...
if you try to protect everything, you end up protecting nothing.
Do you agree that the Department needs new authorities and resources to perform its cybersecurity mission?
I was shocked to hear the number 200,000 contract employees that are working for the Department of Homeland Security.
The GAO first identified this necessity more than 7 years ago.
I think the Washington Post series has raised important questions about the big changes in our government since September 11, 2001.
I want to see specific action in that area as well.
I would strongly encourage you and the Secretary to put your concerns in writing to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Christopher Bond.
It is inconceivable to me that the Department is still putting plans and money into its budget justifications for a program that it had deci...
Since 1997, when I first came to the Senate, the number of the accidental deaths from drugs in Maine has increased almost tenfold.