"I will tell you, both Chairman McCaul and I realize that you cannot conduct proper oversight in a vacuum."
"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 ..."
"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."
"After expending nearly $1 billion DHS cancelled the program because 'SBInet has had continued and repeated technical problems, cost overruns, and schedule delays.'"
"The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified technology acquisition at DHS as an area of high risk."
"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."
"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.'"
"DHS has way too many of the same people buying the same thing but at different components."
"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..."
"I think what you are talking about is strategic sourcing, which is how do you leverage that buying power."