We appreciate the efforts of Congresswoman Miller for her efforts in resolving that crisis.

I have a lot of heartburn with that decision and the posture that the Secretary has taken toward this committee.

I have to ask that because I am sort of on a mission as well to understand why in the Northern border we essentially don't have canines.

One of the things that I sincerely want to strive for is a bipartisan approach on this committee.

I am outraged that this administration refuses to honestly assess the active threats on our Southern border.

It seems to me that all the money we are seizing down there ought to go back towards our border security operations.

I look forward to working with you and my time is about ready to expire. But I would like to work with you and the Department in a bipartisan way to enhance this effort because I do think the money confiscated could be directed back…

But why is it that we just can't implement a policy to allow the border sheriffs, the border police departments to work with you?

As I have said before, as Members representing border districts, both yourself and myself, we have areas of common interest, both the Northern border and the Southern border.

I would ask you to please send that instruction down and be a little more aggressive on that.

I am a big believer that the more you can include the local and State folks to do those south-bound, you can catch more of the guns going down.

I certainly want to sit down with the Chairwoman and see how we can make this work the next time so we don't get any surprises at the very end.

I think that would be helpful.

88 percent of all the goods and people coming into the United States come through land ports.

I think it is a good idea. In areas that were constrained, we certainly have to think outside the box how we can move that quicker.

If there is some technology out there that is proven somewhere else at another place, let us say Europe, why can't we implement some of that technology that would help us stop some of the smuggling coming in?

I would ask you to do the same thing as we asked Chief Fisher, is to evaluate to see if he can send any of those to the Northern or the Southern border.

I have never heard the elderly and the disabled called welfare cases before.