The need to end this de facto moratorium is not only crucial to the Gulf, but it is also a national imperative.
Thank you, Secretary Angelle, and Chairman Jones for joining us today.
there is a moratorium regardless of--if you don't want to call it a de facto moratorium, there is a permatorium
I have written repeatedly, raised this issue with the Secretary of State, tried to get everybody to reevaluate the $540 million over in Sene...
Come on. Could you give me your take on what we are doing right now with President Wade in Senegal?
I think if we take the Government out of the picture and allow private sector to create a nonprofit together...
That is certainly good news, and I do want to commend you for that.
Reducing global poverty is not a matter of altruism, though it would be the right thing to do even if it brought us no direct benefits.
Dramatic increases in food prices in 2007-2008 created a global crisis and led to political and economic instability around the world.
Countries that descend into chaos and anarchy provide breeding grounds for extremism and training grounds for terrorists.
Absolutely. And I will tell you in my home area right now the public doesn't get the sense that its safety is being protected.
I think at some point in the future when you deem it safe, your presence in Japan, I think, would go a long way towards reassuring the peopl...
I believe the ones in Texas--one of them was in Freer. I don't represent that area, but I just passed it just about 2 days ago on Sunday, so...
Can you put that in writing and again share it to all the committee?
How many folks can you let go from headquarters and send them back to the border, where they can provide security at the border?
Our goal is for members of the Alliance to abide by the principle of 'in together, out together.'
In August 2010 we passed H.R. 6080, the 2010 emergency border security supplemental appropriation, which provided $600 million to strengthen...
Will you specifically let us know if you can move any of your Border Patrol agents who are at headquarters, without affecting the mission th...
