I am committed to working with my colleagues on a practical, comprehensive reform proposal to reshape our housing finance system.

If we move too precipitously, we run the risk of destabilizing our economy.

Are they all under the direct control of the service branches?

I'm proud to represent the soldiers and airmen who serve at these facilities.

Can you please provide an accounting of the actions being taken by the Army to expeditiously repair and replace housing and training facilities damaged or destroyed by the tornadoes that affected Fort Leonard Wood in February?

Every one of those reports, I am sure, creates questions in the minds of families who now wonder how accurate the information is on the graves of those they care about.

I think I am out of time, though I did want to ask just briefly your sense of the merits of the 2-year budgeting appropriation cycle that you are in.

And I think one of them may involve Jefferson Barracks and the facility there.

I believe that only about 25 percent of the people that visit the facility go multiple times.

I am not real sure why we are having this hearing.

Just tell me----

I think the fact that 450 drug cartel associates were arrested in the United States directly after the murder of Agent Zapata signifies that spillover crime is, in fact, here, and they are here in the United States.

It is in our own security interest. It is in our own self interest.

We should do that as well.

If this happens, Mexico could become a safe haven for terrorists who we know are attempting to enter the United States through our porous border.

As a former district attorney I have seen first-hand the damage caused by methamphetamine consumption in my district.

The U.S. Homeland Security Role in the Mexican War Against Drug Cartels.

President Calderon should be praised for his efforts to eradicate these cartels.