Although Secretary Napolitano has said she wants to build a more cohesive, effective, and efficient 'One DHS,' without integration and consolidation of management functions, a 'One DHS' will not happen.

I certainly agree with you.

I believe that the size and management of that operation, lots of serious mistakes made, and should never be repeated.

I think that was an important point that I was not aware of. I think perhaps we can change that as well.

It seems to me that there are always lessons learned from other events in the past in the Federal Government.

I think it is important to note that today marks the 1-year anniversary of the brutal killing of Agent Jaime Zapata and shooting of Agent Avila, and I think by the Los Zetas.

Like the rest of my colleagues, I recognize the need to reform our export control system.

Our system is designed for the Cold War, and we all recognize it needs to be changed.

Unless we fix these types of problems we will continue to see failures in DHS programs such as the Secure Border Initiative virtual fence, where in the end taxpayers received little if any return on a $1 billion dollar investment.

You can be a type A personality and you are not going to get a heart attack.

If you release the data as soon as possible, the scientific process can take over.

I personally wish we could appropriate more dollars, but we live within a tough budgetary time.