"I hope that, Mr. Green, you and I and the Ranking Member would like to do this as well, to work on this effort to get more of the funding back."
"Finally, I know I have taken more than my time, but I want to ask Mr. Caldwell and the Sheriff, in terms of your recommendations on what needs to be done to ensure that the type of tanker explosion I ..."
"This committee will be having an authorization bill I believe coming up in the fall."
"I would hope that we have an opportunity I think to work together on that effort as well in a bipartisan effort in the Harris County delegation."
"As an oversight committee our job is to help reduce the cost of Government."
"With our Nation's record debt approaching $15 trillion, we need this now more than ever before."
"The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified technology acquisition at DHS as an area of high risk."
"Just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that DHS plans to spend more than $300 million 'on radiation detection equipment that has not been fully tested and may not work.'"
"After expending nearly $1 billion DHS cancelled the program because 'SBInet has had continued and repeated technical problems, cost overruns, and schedule delays.'"
"I think what you are talking about is strategic sourcing, which is how do you leverage that buying power."
"DHS has way too many of the same people buying the same thing but at different components."
"I would say if I had to guess what percentage of DHS's budget that they strategically source that they could, I would say it is less than 1 percent."