Like any CEO with a law firm sometimes the lawyers have to tell the CEO, Mr. CEO, you can't do that. Don't do that. It will get us sued. It's going to be in violation of the law you'll regret it, please, no matter how head strong they…

the majority of the Republicans in the Senate a year or so ago voted against reauthorizing the Bank because we could not get real meaningful reform.

A lot of us have pushed for overall and comprehensive bank reform.

The administration has an emphasis on Buy American. It just seems to me it would make sense that you would prefer American dogs and American-trained dogs over foreign-sourced dogs.

I for one would not want to support a big reduction just for the biggest of the biggest and do nothing for our basic base and job creation small- and medium-sized businesses.

There is not even a constant presence at DCA.

You haven't fulfilled all your contracts. That is part of what bothers me is we don't have the perimeter security that I think is necessary at our airports and our rail transportation and other transportation hubs.

Are you adequately funded for your canine units?

It concerns me that we are not doing that in light of what happened in Brussels.

The people that I represent sent me to Washington to try to be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.

We have to address our infrastructure inadequacies.

We can't rest on that. A lot of it is crumbling, as you know. Our population is growing.

I came on this Committee for one reason. I knew how important the infrastructure challenge was in this country and in this Congress.

There has to be a combination of other things. But there is so much more money in the private sector, if we figure out a way to leverage it up here.

I thank Congressman Ratcliffe and the committee for their work on this bill. The internet is an ever-increasing medium for criminals to carry out crimes, such as sex trafficking, credit card theft, and identity theft. We are currently…

I think that what your success story really illustrates to all of us is that, you know, those programs are not about trying to breed dependency.

How can we scale programs like Year Up to help rural America?

Do you believe that the CFIUS statute as now written, which we were all involved in on this Committee, is sufficient for your work?