I am not yet committed to a merger. I think that collaboration is truly key, but there is a directive from the White House and likely we may have that.

That was obviously a fractured response, and we needed urgent response.

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we are not doing our job.

We need a fix on this system, and it is broken.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. I thank Chairman Thompson for convening this important hearing to examine President Obama's Presidential Study Directive.

I think this is an important discussion and, as well, hopefully at the end of the 60 days of the study that the President has authorized that we will have the right answer, and I think that is certainly a challenge.

I think security equates to urgency.

I want to offer my enthusiast support for H.R. 847.

I just wanted to make sure that was on the record----

Mr. Chairman, if I can further----