Today is a day that we need to start talking about disaster relief for what will be a disaster if we don't get on this today.

For most of us, that's a danger. We get concerned when we hear about artificial intelligence.

So do you have a technical background? So are you an IT guy?

If there was a deadline for yesterday, and we're talking about security clearance backlogs, and you're having a hard time responding to a simple request from the ranking member, at what point are we going to get a response.

So did you do criminal background checks on all of those people?

This is not the initial one, this is actually on the maintenance?

Was it when they got their security clearance?

There is nothing more important than getting this right, and getting it right quicker than what we're doing now.

That's why it's imperative that you get the kind of information to the ranking member that he requested.

So now is this the check that maintains the clearance that you're talking about it?

So why have we not deployed that today in this realm?

We are very concerned with the inefficient use of taxpayer dollars on a critical mission.