Madam Secretary, can you speak to the status of efforts to develop the systems, the databases that we need to verify passports and birth certificates?
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Voinovich asks Secretary Napolitano about database development for document verification.
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Yes. If they would just take that little piece and do it and just say, 'Yes, we think this is good, or if you have got to change, work it out and then come back.'
And you are anticipating that you are going to have more money because of the appropriations, but you have to hold that in abeyance until the appropriation is made?
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