I trust that you will be up for the challenge.
It has been a joy to work with you as Chairman.
I like the Coast Guard. It is underfunded and, like many agencies in government, not treated properly.
Not to mention the staff that leads us in the right direction.
I want to hear from her, and I also want to hear from our Subcommittee Chairman, Mr. Frank Lautenberg.
The legislation presently before the Congress would authorize a repeal of the 'don't ask, don't tell', pending a certification by the presid...
I think that, in this respect, and I obviously have a lot of admiration and respect for Senator McCain, but in this respect, I think that he...
We're going to create a virtual fence that employs motion detectors and infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to detect and prevent ...
It's been as rigorously analyzed and thoroughly debated as any national security policy that -- that we have seen in a long time.
If the Republicans, who still have the capacity under the filibuster rule to block anything, if they hold firm -- and I fear that they will ...
The solution here is not to wait for the senate, which I think will not be able to pass the repeal. But, instead, for President Obama to iss...
I think he's empirically wrong when he says there's no groundswell of support among the troops. We will see what this study says. But there ...
I think he should be respected on that. I -- I do think he's empirically wrong when he says there's no groundswell of support among the troo...
An unintended consequence of 'don't ask don't tell' which was a compromise that the president -- my boss, President Clinton signed into law ...
We might have wanted to have this kind of equipment on 9/11.
The protocols that I want to have changed is to articulate the privacy rights of our traveling public.
I would like to say to my good friend, Congressman Mica, who I look forward to working with, first of all, this is a pilot program.
We don't want to, if you will, go back to the opportunity of more terrorism and terrorist acts.
