I want to talk briefly on several issues here as well. One is the growth of homegrown violent extremism.

All the work that's happening right now on Iran is extremely important to all of us, and compliance with the nuclear agreement the President made.

But right now that's the spot that's actually the traffic cop basically to make sure that we're not overlapping on it, or if at times we're overlapping it's with purpose?

I am absolutely convinced that this community policing model that came out of the 1990s... is how we are going to do a much better job defending the homeland.

You're using a lot of social media now to try to use--basically, creating the algorithms to anticipate hostile actions and such.

It gets noisy in a hurry when industry, individuals, employers, employees suddenly realize, I have two or three bosses here all telling me to do different things.

So at this point your statement would be it does not have the force of law, but it is your understanding.

So we are back to my original question. If a university chooses to use clear and convincing standards versus preponderance of evidence, what does the Department of Education do with that school?

When a 'Dear Colleague' letter comes out, I follow it--and his exact words were--as if it is regulation.

But you are looking for overlap as well, and what I am trying to figure out is--I would assume you are trying to get as many significant guidance documents as possible.

These smell like regulations and it certainly looks like they ended up acting like regulations.

No, but it is an interesting challenge just to be able to look at five courts ruled the other direction; one court ruled that way.

But any options still violates, because it makes the statement very clearly, local decisionmakers set this. There is not a Federal guideline for it.

There is a Heitkamp-Lankford bill that would help with that, that is already sitting out there, by the way, that our Committee has passed and you have supported.

I cannot seem to draw that standard from anything that I read in Title 9.

How many have you met with at this point, because there are hundreds of thousands.

I can assure you, Americans are not excited about fighting their own government.

That public consternation that came back at the agency and entities obviously floods into our office when they raise the question, what is the Federal Government doing to us rather than for us?

the IRS really does not document their analysis of their economic impact.

I would say there are a lot of districts that disagree with that, and we can agree to disagree.

There are a tremendous number of people that are begging for that because it is incredibly difficult to both understand and implement in a lot of businesses because of the number of exceptions.

It is a very serious problem.

But you know--I am sorry to interrupt--you know as well as I do, those were coming out very rapidly after the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas.

But that standard of evidence was not published before.

we are still a nation of the people, by the people, for the people.