The OCO experiment has been an abject failure. It has given the Department budgetary relief valve that has allowed it to avoid making difficult decisions.

We still have questions as to the response time. We still have some questions around what was going on with the department of defense.

Thank you very much, Congressman Ryan, for that question.

The ability for the Defense Department to spend money, to procure things, is an awesome amount of buying power.

One of the questions I had--I read with great interest about what happened in March with the United States Coast Guard Cutter Stone, which was deployed to the South Atlantic to help curb illegal Chinese fishing.

Thank you for prioritizing this hearing. I think this is a critically important issue.

But we cannot militarize the Capitol in response to an attempted ransacking of representative democracy.

That is a very limited number compared to what the threat was.

Well, just to be clear, that document basically affirmed your intelligence as well.

Thank you for all the good work you do behind the scenes.

It takes a lot of nerve to be in a leadership position today like the one you are in.

I would like to just kind of follow up and ask Chief Pittman if she could answer the question about the tens of thousands of insurrectionists, what that exact number was of people on the Capitol complex that were pushing through to get to…

I mean, we have--and I don't know how we do this, because we are the Federal Government, and a lot of this stuff needs done.

That is mind-boggling to us, how, given everything going on, the FBI issues some kind of report...

There has to be a creative way we can move these projects up, start getting them done, and get creative with how we can, you know, save the taxpayer a lot of money.

I think those are the kinds of things that we need to do now, and we could maybe start making some serious headway on some of this.

I question the food that they are being fed. Very highly processed, lots of sugar, additive sugar.

We have been committed to doing is really trying to create an environment and a culture here on the Capitol.

So, Mr. Blanton, all the doors will be--what are the strongest doors we have in the Capitol?

Hey, we need more help.

I think, you know, we can do both. We appreciate your communications with us... but we also think the American people and the press need to hear directly from you.

There are a lot of inequality. There are opportunities for a greater role for prevention and education and earlier treatment.

You look at the lack of communication, you look at the lack of--you guys didn't even see the FBI threat assessment.

Thank you, Mr. Amodei.

Thanks. And we will make sure the staff follows up on that, too, Jennifer. That is really important.