About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 (2016)

handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysasag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:35 p.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. John Hoeven (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Hoeven, Cassidy, Shaheen, and Tester. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION STATEMENT OF KEVIN K. MCALEENAN, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN HOEVEN Senator HOEVEN. I will now call this hearing of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee together. I would like to thank Ranking Member Senator Sheehan for joining me, also Senator Tester. Senator Cassidy will be back shortly, and I think there will be some others joining us as well. But I would like to thank both Deputy Directors for Customs and Border Pro- tection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for being here today. Welcome, gentlemen. We look forward to your testimony. We will have opening statements by those Senators that wish to make them, and then I will ask for your opening statements as well, and then we will proceed to 5-minute rounds for questions. I want to again welcome our witnesses, Kevin McAleenan, the Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection; and Dan- iel Ragsdale, the Deputy Director of Immigration and Customs En- forcement. Last year, the subcommittee appropriated almost $17 billion for CBP and ICE. Despite the many strategic investments we have made, the Department still needs to do more so that we have the metrics necessary to ensure the funds are being spent effectively to deliver mission results. So that is the first focus for me today. We will discuss how your agencies are measuring performance and using metrics to inform the resources that you have requested. By some measures, your agencies are doing less with more, but we must look at the challenges of immigration and border protec- tion in a broader context and work to improve existing programs. In part, due to the President's Executive actions, ICE removed over (1)

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most