Like Senator Perdue was saying, if Wal-Mart can do it, why not the Department of Defense?

Just cut to the chase and get right to the audit.

It is the responsibility of this Committee to make sure that the men and women who capably and courageously protect our security have the tools and the resources to perform that task.

I want to welcome all of our witnesses.

I would really like to work with you, Commissioner Davis, to develop a way to audit so that it is a positive thing.

The issues that we deal with in this Committee, I think, speak right to our mission statement: to enhance the economic and national security of America.

One of the great strengths of democracy, is the way that we operate in this country, with all of these thousands of communities--18,000 police departments--but it is also one of our greatest weaknesses: trying to get them coordinated and…

I know that, for Senator Baldwin and I, this hits pretty close to home because on August 5, 2012, there was an active shooter at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

What has happened is we have become more--it is being swept under the rug.

Would you please look at your laws and end the ambiguity in your laws that actually incentivize our children, their future, from leaving their countries and coming to America?

So in 2009, we basically had about 50 people in this capacity, roughly, because you are not going to really change much.

So give me some numbers on that in terms of staff increases.

I share your outrage. This is shameful what has happened.

the true solution here is let us reduce and stop the flow, and that we have to really take a look at the policies in our own immigration laws that incentivize this behavior

Literally, failure is not an option.

as soon as this administration were to present and we were to have Democratic support for an Authorization for Use of Military Force that shows the full commitment of this Nation and this administration to accomplish the goal of defeating…

I will tell you, as a Protestant Lutheran, if there is a radical band of Lutherans committing terrorist attack after terrorist attack, I would call them, 'Lutheran terrorists,' and I would denounce them, and I would renounce them.

if we are going to accept, let us say, 10,000 refugees, which is just a pittance in terms of the numbers of refugees, why do we not establish criteria.

I hope that you understand as well as the American people watching this understand, this is one area of completely unanimous agreement that we must honor the promises to the finest among us to provide them with quality care.

I think that is, I think, one of our greater vulnerabilities.

It basically says that no refugee may be admitted until the Director of the FBI certifies to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence that each refugee has received a background investigation that is…

I truly do appreciate and I think everybody on this Committee appreciates the fact that you are taking the time to lay out that reality for the American public.

When I took over as Chairman of this Committee, working with Senator Carper, we developed a rather simple mission statement for the Committee.

My final comment, the House just passed the American SAFE Act of 2015. I have introduced the Senate companion bill.

The root cause of this problem is that ISIS exists, that it was able to rise from the ashes of what was a defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq.