I think we all agree that one of our core jobs and responsibilities as Members of Congress is to make sure we are stewards watching the use of taxpayer revenue.

If the Republicans today repeal the Affordable Care Act and later the Senate repealed the Act, the President is saying he is going to veto it.

Today the economy has experienced significant growth with 58 consecutive months of private sector job gains.

It is great to see bipartisan cooperation here. We are continuing that into this Congress.

I think it is important to come to Atlanta to see how things are going, and it would be very instructive for both of us.

I am glad that we are here today to work on working out--not to decide whether or not there is a problem, we are way past that--how to fix it.

I applaud the efforts of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee in finding ways in which access controls at our Nation's airports can be further improved through the cooperation of TSA and industry stakeholders.

Thank you again for this opportunity to testify concerning access control measures at our Nation's airports.

Do you think it would be prudent, when we are considering everything in the total mix of measures...?

I hope this hearing is the beginning of a meaningful dialogue on the changes that need to be made at our Nation's airports.

We should stand firm on the legislation we passed.

This is a pattern. The executive branch agencies, first they drag their feet, they don't comply with things Congress wants.

the U.S. House of Representatives voted, with 26 Democrats I might add, voted to call for a special prosecutor

the U.S. House held Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress.

This is about all records and making sure that all records are available to you to do the work that is so important to the American taxpayer.

Two of those were while he was candidate Obama. The other 20 were while he was President Obama.

What I was envisioning and what we as the committee are envisioning with respect to these employee entrance points is that if employees go through a certain point, a select number of them may be randomly selected at any time.

if you had the additional resources, we would not only get better compliance--which is our responsibility, to make sure we have compliance--we would get greater revenue, which would help those taxpayers who are paying their taxes get the…