If we shut down oil and gas drilling in New Mexico today, we will have to shut down our schools tomorrow.

You have written protocols that support that need? Just yes or no, because I am out of time.

Thank you. That is a great lesson learned, and it is certainly something I saw, so I am pleased that Border Patrol is addressing that.

That is also part of protocol, so it is required. If there is a deficiency, an agent has the ability to alert, to fill that deficiency?

Chairwoman Torres Small, Ranking Member Crenshaw, and Members of the subcommittee, on behalf of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE), which represents more than 700,000 Federal and District of Columbia employees…

The best way to create engagement and high morale is to participate in effective, collaborative dispute resolution.

I thank all the witnesses for their valuable testimony and the Members for their questions.

As I have said from the beginning, the reason for these investigations is not to punish people; it is to keep this from happening again.

Now, Chief Hastings, I deeply appreciate the work that the men and women of Border Patrol do every single day and have done in the past year to mitigate the situation we saw at the Southern Border.

Unfortunately, the results indicate a strong need for improvement.

I am particularly concerned by the fact that after a few years of minor improvements in overall morale, in 2019 employee morale at DHS decreased again.