I will tell you, both Chairman McCaul and I realize that you cannot conduct proper oversight in a vacuum.

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.

DHS has way too many of the same people buying the same thing but at different components.

With our Nation's record debt approaching $15 trillion, we need this now more than ever before.

As an oversight committee our job is to help reduce the cost of Government.

the best way to protect American citizens is take a share of the Afghanistan security fund assistance of $12 billion or so and redirect that to homeland security so that we can have the resources that we need.

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.'

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified technology acquisition at DHS as an area of high risk.

I think what you are talking about is strategic sourcing, which is how do you leverage that buying power.

After expending nearly $1 billion DHS cancelled the program because 'SBInet has had continued and repeated technical problems, cost overruns, and schedule delays.'

the theme of this hearing is cooperation to enhance security, and I think this is a great model that works

So they keep changing the game. When you go to one place, they go somewhere else.