Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Ranking Member as well.
I would like to just make a comment that I think is important, too, in this area, is we've heard a lot about the states ...
Prepared statement.
I expect you will be a forceful advocate for the intelligence community in those discussions, while maintaining an unwav...
Simply put, it's essential that Congress authorize these authorities to help keep the country safe while protecting our ...
I think people are depending on us.
We didn't reduce any of the 17 agencies. We still have the same 17 agencies.
I would ask unanimous consent that we could introduce into the record a letter from the Association of General Contracto...
The screening that occurs in those small airports can be exceedingly important when we saw what happened.
we can't get the permits to get those pipelines built.
It has been something that means a lot to me as a construction industry and I spent, again, 51 years in it.
we have seen our coal industry collapse.
the anti-coal fervor that the Obama administration put in place; 83,000 coal miners lost their job.
Absolutely, we have got to have reliable baseload, and that could be a combination of nuclear, I think coal should still...
We have just gone through 8 years, we have seen a loss of baseload capacity across this country and we are going to have...
I'm a little concerned about lack of global standards, is cost. No one has mentioned cost up here.
I don't see anything about third party certification for public safety, putting public safety first overriding competiti...
As one of just two licensed engineers in Congress, this is an intriguing process that we're going to undergo.
