You need dramatic and fundamental reforms. You need to engage in movement politics.

The point is that you have got to have the budget to do that.

if you don't give them the money and the budget and the tools to get the job done, then you are basically telling them that you don't think very much of the job that you are asking them to do.

Thank you. This has been a great hearing. I am pleased with it. This is a nice team, and if you are all working together, we are going to continue to make some real progress.

I promise you that if we get that and the need is dollars and cents, I would like to work with you.

I really want to publicly express my appreciation to you for the work that we are doing together to try and get DHS off the High-Risk List.

It just seems that we don't have enough of that going on today in the Federal Government.

Did you know I am Ranking Member on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee and am very interested in making sure that you have the money that you need to get the job done?

part of the problem is that Congress comes in and sets your priorities and juggles the money around.

I would like to know in writing just what exactly it is that you are going to be doing.

I think you need to continue to do that, because the previous Administration really was into farming stuff out.

I regularly remind my colleagues that when we established the Department, we initiated the Federal Government's largest restructuring since the Department of Defense.