El Paso and San Diego are among the two of the 10 safest cities in the United States.

I wanted to start by following up on a comment made by my colleague and hopefully help disabuse him and anyone else who might hold the notion that we can somehow conflate immigrants and aspiring citizens with criminality, drug dealers, and…

It has become a democracy. Since 2000 it has a robust, functioning democracy, something that was unheard of a generation ago.

I want to thank Mr. Dinkins and the government of Mexico and everyone involved in the capture of Chapo Guzman.

We have sent them Black Hawk helicopters, you know, kind of law enforcement material.

El Paso is the safest city today; it has been for the last 4 years. That is, I think, in large part because of the large immigrant population we have in our community, not in spite of that.

What is going to change, in all reality?

I think that is--especially that last part is a smart investment in Mexico.

I commend the ATF for looking to innovative risk bearing ways to get at gun running in our society.

Thank you very much for your testimony and for your service to our Nation.

In 2009 this committee conducted an investigation of DOT's hazmat program, and were made aware of an internal DOT analysis which showed that 60 to 90 percent of all accidents were unreported.

I was remiss in not noting cyber as one of the asymmetric threats that North Korea is developing.

I have been working on this issue for years. When I first did a deep dive on this in 2007, I can tell you pretty much nobody was talking about it.

Your Principal Military Deputy for Acquisition, Lieutenant General Davis, was quoted in the press a few weeks ago stating that 'of course the new bomber will cost more than $550 million per aircraft.'

But what I am hearing from you all is is that there is a system to do that now.

And just as I finish, Mr. Chairman, you know it looks like as you pointed out, and human error, and the bar code, that that technology is available.

I would absolutely think you ought to notify the patients. I mean, that is the most affected person.

I think we are getting a little carried away. It is nice to be producing more but the chances that we export more petroleum than we import are roughly the same as Vladimir Putin winning a Nobel Peace Prize.