George Voinovich: “One of the things that I must say that too often here we talk about the money to buy things, but we neglect the fact…”

Senator Voinovich and I introduced legislation to institutionalize these reforms to the security clearance process.

In the past, GAO has suggested that the Joint Reform Team provide Congress with 'long-term financing requirements for security clearance reform.'

We still believe that identifying long-term funding for all of the reform efforts would help, especially as the money becomes tighter and congressional decisionmakers such as yourself have to prioritize.

My hope is that enough progress would have been made on this that you all could say that this is off the high-risk list.