Should we be more risk-based? Should we be looking more at the real threat rather than the grandmother?
I've had numerous people say, 'Why aren't we doing what they do in Israel? That works so well.'
One of them I think is shameful that hasn't been made by us in Congress and elsewhere is that you meet 8:30 every morning and share informat...
This is a tremendous weakness. ... If we're trying to create uniform standards of security, if we leave that to each local police ...
I think the problem is pretty obvious. I think if you are having an investigation on commercial aircraft that are flying all over the countr...
It's an area that I'm going to be looking at myself, because I think we need stronger penalties.
I know, you know, that some of the reviews of 9/11 taught us that so many lives would have been saved had that been in place.
With the nature of airports, small rural airports, they have unique challenges. I think it's an area where we should continue.
I also wish to thank Chairman Bachus for allowing this committee today to consider the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act as part of today's ...
I believe is essential. Why? To ensure that we do not unduly overburden registered companies or negatively impact job creation here in this ...
There is no longer any excuse for this Committee and this Congress to delay action on the broad reforms that are needed.
The lessons of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy still ring loud and clear.
The agency regulating offshore was known, had become dysfunctional.
Even the simple and common-sense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republica...
Approximately 70% of the Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Resources currently under lease in all areas of the Federal Gulf of Mexico are...
That is kind of like saying, if you live in Iowa, you have more chance of being eaten by a shark than if you lived in Montana.
We clearly believe that municipalities have been badly treated by this system.
These are people who have systematically overrated private securities but systematically underrated public entities.
