William M. ``Mac'' Thornberry: “I thank Chairman Hoekstra for all of his work in this area. Mr. Chairman, there is no perfect bill that comes across…”

“I thank Chairman Hoekstra for all of his work in this area. Mr. Chairman, there is no perfect bill that comes across this floor. And particularly in the area of intelligence, there is no perfect amount of information that tells us everything that we want to know. But rather than use this bill to send a message to the White House, I think that the committee generally has come together to try to fashion a bill that makes our country safer. It is not perfect, it does not do everything that I would like it to do, but the members of this committee on both sides of the aisle take their job very seriously, and realize how much is at stake, and have generally avoided the kinds of partisan rhetoric that we sometimes see. The chairman and ranking member have assigned the oversight subcommittee with strategic oversight. That means we are not to follow the headlines of the day, but the distinguished gentlemen from Alabama (Mr. Cramer) and I have worked very well together, I think, to try to find those strategic issues, focusing on them. That really make a difference in the long run. As the chairman mentioned, one of our areas of focus is to make sure that this new DNI office gets started on the right foot; is not just another bureaucracy, but truly brings the intelligence community together so there is not the duplication, not the stovepipes, not the gaps that we have seen in the past.…”