James Lankford

The lack of recognition that you've had for three decades from our Nation because you've served in a way that no one has seen.

The United States taxpayers have put about $650 million a year for the last two years into the Northern Triangle and the Alliance for Prosperity.

One of the ways that we could help protect this, as Senator Carper had mentioned before, is more immigration judges...

The current background check system does not check for legal status?

What is our percentage right now of UACs that are actually delivered into a home that the individual they are delivered to is not a citizen of the United States?

Let me just ask, how long does it currently take for a UAC to get before a judge?

So do you anticipate that your office will work with procurement officials governmentwide to be able to help develop some of those standards?

So let me ask about the attribution of that, because initially when it hits, let us say, a pipeline company, it hits an electric grid, water, election system, whatever it may be, we know it exists.

Thank you for the work that you have already done.

OK. When do you anticipate that would happen?

That is what I would assume.

Because there is always new stuff, yes.

The issue here is that each of the adversary sets is going to have a different set of objectives.

Right, which would be helpful. So let me go to the risk side of it then.

I did notice, in your budget, that you're recommending that we not use that as a pay-for, that we set a ceiling on that spending, save that money for crime victims, and not try to shift that over to somewhere else.

I have a hard time believing that, if only more of our parents smoked more marijuana, our kids would be so much better.

Is this an increase in staffing? Is this combining other offices? Or is it just switching that one office and switching the name and some of the placement of it? What else will you need?

But many of the systems are connected to us.

What is the process of helping agencies understand when you add something that has Internet of things on it, you are adding a vulnerability to your system once you connect it to your main communication?

Can the password be changed?

All these things have vulnerabilities.

We don't just spend money and say, look, we spend money, we don't just say, here are the program names that we have.

I need to tell you that you need to lead with that.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman.

The experience you bring here... is very valuable.