Political Quotes

“It is important that we give our resources to the intelligence community for the activities they believe are most important, not perhaps what an individual Member of Congress may believe is important for them. It is why we are asking in this motion to instruct for a clean bill. There have been unfortunate cases, not only on this committee but on other committees, about Members abusing the privilege and responsibility of putting in earmarks. This takes away that responsibility. This takes away that opportunity for Members to direct funding outside of the normal course of business of the committee. What it does is it says, let's make sure that we fully fund human intelligence capabilities. Our dedication is to provide the resources to those people who are involved in human intelligence. One of the critical weaknesses we had was in human intelligence, in many different facets: that we don't have enough of those resources, we don't have the resources with the right capabilities and the right places, and those types of things.”