I ask that you help us fulfill our critical mission and role, and fund us at the levels that will allow us to hire the necessary staff, keep talented and experienced individuals, a...
We have to have good staff, we have to conduct good work. We have to have the ability to travel, to do field hearings.
Our biggest challenge is several, Madam Chair. Our enemy is not the enemy we started with.
A lot of those reductions have not allowed us to really do effective committee work.
we have to have the complement of staff necessary to address all the threats that we come in contact with.
Not local. Federal sharing information with locals. The other way.
Mr. Chairman, this is concerning.
So do you require a monitoring of that process?
I thank the Chairman for holding today's hearing.
The threat is evolving. As it evolves, we cannot remain stagnant.
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