The 14th Amendment is the Constitution. The 14th Amendment can't be unconstitutional, Senator. It is the Constitution.
We are enforcing -- we are enforcing the law, but we're not going to shred the Constitution. And that's what you want to...
If you believe in border security, you ought to be singing the praises of Barack Obama.
You bet. You bet.
What punishment would you have? What would you do with them, sir? There's 12 million of them here. What are you going to...
My State of Texas is a leader in clean energy. In fact, if Texas were its own country--which some people have talked abo...
It was an absolutely dreadful bill.
The ill-conceived Gulf drilling moratorium flies in the face of everything common sense tells us about our precarious en...
Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.
I want to ask you something, because I have been concerned, as I think many people know, because I introduced a bill in ...
It has been almost 4 years since this committee passed port security legislation, which became the SAFE Port Act of 2006...
The Port of Houston continues to rank first in the country in U.S. imports, first in foreign waterborne tonnage.
With the capability to do the transfers away from the ports?
There is a disconnect between what we read and see, versus seeming like we're not making the maximum use.
Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding today's hearing on port security, a critical element of our Nation's national securi...
Clearly, our Nation's economy and the flow of commerce can be affected significantly by an unforeseen event, which I am ...
The Brookings Institution estimated that a detonated weapon of mass destruction at an American port could cost $1 trilli...
Thank you.