I was thrilled that you decided to stay on the Committee and continue to share your insights and expertise with us.

the President has decided to try and make several temporary improvements, hoping it would spur those of us in Congress to finish the job that we began almost 2 years ago.

I want to dwell for a moment on what works and just throw out an idea that might be helpful for us.

Protecting privacy and the integrity of information is what compels us to act.

I look forward to working with Chairman McCaul, Ranking Member Thompson, and Ranking Member Richmond to craft thoughtful cybersecurity legislation that achieves this balance.

We understand the consequences.

When you hear 'illegal immigration,' I may think one thing. You may think another. But we have to define that.

What I have yet to see is where it is a Central American plan coming from them themselves.

Just for clarification, under the, I want to say, 2007 law signed by President Bush, does it differentiate the way we treat kids from these Central American countries as opposed to kids from Mexico in terms of what we do with them and the…

about 40 percent of the people that are here illegally out of the 11 or 12 million that are here came here--they came here legally.

Certainly, it had good support here in the United States, but it was a Colombian plan developed with support from the United States.

Quit making this a political issue. Make this the human issue that it is that impacts families.

They have very weak government systems, as you know, and we can help bolster them.

As I understand it, there is around $500 million that actually is divided among the three countries.

We have a window of opportunity that he believes... leaders who are committed to providing their nations and their citizens the level of security and economic development that they deserve.

We have several million people in the country who are looking for work.

I think it has dawned on Mexico in the last year or so that they have a dog in this fight...

I would continue the information-sharing collaboration as we are doing now, implement technology to assist in that.