to go beyond twick? >> i'm not aware of any, sir. >> okay. and it seems to me, because i try to stay pretty close to the ground there with a lot of my folks, and i have not heard one in our area. people may not like some of the chemicals we produce, but there are things -- they produce them because somebody need them in our country, and we want to make sure they're safely produced, both for the people who live around it but the folks in that plant. and every time i talk about the issue with dhs, you assure me they incorporate twick. i just want to make sure it goes forward from that, and i think maybe we'll even contact omb and express that concern, that, don't reinvent the wheel even though we have two separate federal agencies, and hopefully that would come from both agencies, including the department of transportation that uses the same database that you have. mr. chairman, i don't have any other questions. i would be glad to yield back to the colleague from georgia. >> the colleague from georgia yiel

green's comment about twick card, no, i can't make the twick card be broader than the current integration of the twick card, which means you have to be a transportation worker. >> well, mr. beers, this is a disturbing memo. we appreciate the fact that it's come to our attention, and i certainly hope that you understand that most of us haven't seen anything like -- this is a very unusually poorly run agency. and if it's not going to -- if at any time you believe that you're not the right person to turn this troubled agency around, that maybe there ought to be a different managing structure. so having made that point, i hope that the committee will carefully watch the progress in this action plan, because the american taxpayers are not going to stand for this kind of alleged or perceived incompetence for this very important nation and security. >> i want to follow up. we really got to get a handle on this card issue. we would like for you to provide us your legal opinion of why you cannot deal with the twick card. we think you can. we -- and that's the energy and commerce committee having d