The certainty of it I think is extremely important.

It would deal with some of the real problems that we have out there.

This reauthorization with robust funding would take and put a segment of our economy in place for the next 5 years.

We are talking about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and this will have a dramatic impact on reducing emissions.

But it is more than something else.

I appreciate your being here today, Madam Secretary, to provide your insights on the Department's priorities.

Can you guarantee me and the chairman...whether or not next year you are going to be in here with a supplemental because you underfunded this budget for fiscal year 2011 in terms of dealing with all natural disasters?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I would like to have you provide me, not now, the background on the advanced imaging technology and when the decision was made to go forward with the purchase of it, just the whole scenario of how it…

In my opinion, I think we should have asked the American people to help pay for it.

If you do not have the biometrics in place, then the program is not going to go forward, and if it is not required, then what is the substitute?

I mean, I cannot understand why you do not allow me as an employer to take my workforce and put it through E-Verify.