Blake Farenthold: “I would like to thank Mr. Cummings and Mr. Lynch for working together in such a bipartisan manner on this very important…”

“I would like to thank Mr. Cummings and Mr. Lynch for working together in such a bipartisan manner on this very important national security bill. It is a commonsense, good government bill that is designed to use existing funds that are brought into the OPM to oversee the OPM. They have got a huge chunk of money here that is coming from the background checks, and they don't have the resources necessary to adequately make sure these background checks are going to be done. Mr. Cummings cited numerous examples of how the failures in the system have resulted in tragedies and have resulted in information getting out. We need to make sure these background checks are being done properly, we need to make sure this money is being administered properly, and this bipartisan bill does that. I too urge my colleagues to pass the bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.”