I think there would be a good return on investment in the following areas. I am very concerned about the growth in improper payments in the Federal Government.

Yes. So, help provide some clarity.

Do not pull back from giving us accurate information for the sake of saying we have to play the Washington game on things.

This is such a big deal and it's such an ongoing conversation that I'm actually in two simultaneous hearings today.

I would also say in what opinions come out, do not feel an obligation to I guess water it down to the lowest common denominator Congress can handle.

CBO would look at that and say Congress has fixed that every year, they come up with a new way to fix that every year.

I look forward to the testimony as well.

There is this myth that all of you know well is just a myth that foreign actors, whether they be North Korea, Iran, Russia, or China, are interested in hacking into the Pentagon, but they are really not interested in anyone else. That is…

So, Ms. Manfra, let me ask you this question.

Hopefully, we can get that done. Senator Heitkamp and I are working on getting that hiring authority.

At some point, I guess 5, 10 years out, we will be able to audit every country in the world except our own Pentagon.

The Center for Excellence was supposed to be self-funded with revenue.

Typically, the answer from Congress is we do not know.

But what he actually did was just gave the Russian government access to the DNC, and then it took off from there.

Yes, the Global Accountability Office.

Everyone knows that is not real, but yet the law allows it.

Let me just bounce several questions off of you, and we will do a couple of rounds of questions and try to keep them in smaller bites so we can run through some things.

When we have literally thousands of people that are teleworking, and we do not know if it is working or not.

I have had some conversations with some Federal managers that have said they have very strong high walls that they cannot supervise on telework days and it has made it very difficult to be able to get good metrics.

More data in its rawest form is helpful to us rather than its refined lowest-common-denominator-type form.

I think that is what I am asking.

I get very emotional about duplication.

Do you feel like the amount that you're requesting is an adequate amount for that?

If I talk to an agent, they still feel like an appendage in the DHS machine.

So for disaster relief, we have for several years in this Congress tried to figure out an appropriate amount.