You could say to our Committee that you do not need this money right now.

I have been trying since February, again in March, and as recently as last week, to get an answer from the Department on whether or not the Biometric Air Exit Program should be decoupled from further expansion of the Visa Waiver Program.

You helped draft the legislation, and they put no money in the budget to pay for establishing a biometric air exit program.

I am very upset about it. And I am telling you about it, and you should tell the Secretary that I am about ready to go to the floor to talk about the incompetence of your Department.

We have a very difficult budgetary environment right now.

Some of this stuff is not real complicated, and I am familiar with what you have done on the border.

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