the Appropriations Committee mirrors the authorizing committees, but has the responsibility for allocating and distributing funds.

And that is why the Commission was set up and was asked to put this report forward, because there was a belief that we needed to focus on oceans.

This is a fairly significant report and fairly long, also. And it is really a blueprint for how we propose to address what is one of the critical needs of the world.

I have always found Senate hearings to be fairly stilted and I wanted to have more of a discussion.

I have serious reservations about putting this much money, this quickly, into the Patent and Trademark Office.

Are we going to pursue legal remedies to get recovery of, what is it, about $400 million?

I held a number of hearings on this specific issue, which was the interrelationship of the different departments.

I do think that there is a role for an individual who has the authority of the homeland security portfolio.

I have spent a fair amount of time on this issue.

I would like to suggest that rather than pursuing the course that is maybe the full effort, which has reservations to it, which have been outlined, that we take a look at resolving a problem that we know we can resolve, which is to take…

Today, we do not have that. Unfortunately, our borders are porous. Our management of those borders is inefficient and the lines of authority are overlapping and confusing.