I want you to report back to this committee within 30 days the action plan that you're going to have to address that.

FTA's lack of authority has been a contributor, yes.

How many more people have to die before we get you to act in the appropriate manner?

What we're willing to do is if you'll make the tough decisions, we'll ask the tough questions and hold people accountable.

It's a systematic fault of all the people involved in that process.

I need you to come back to this body within 30 days. I'm going to give you the same time.

You're making a lot of difficult decisions that will make a lot of people angry.

Congress needs to be held accountable for the way the agencies operate.

I believe that a friendly amendment that would protect our whistleblowers would be in order.

We're talking about $600 billion.

I can assure you that whistleblowers are a vital part of what we do, from an oversight standpoint.

We would ask each of you to report to this committee, if you can, three recommendations on what you would like to see.