State and local law enforcement agencies are successfully using 287(g) authority to make communities safer.

I strongly support 287(g) and believe it is invaluable, too, to help enhance our ability to deter illegal immigration and detect criminals and others who may wish to do us harm.

in my opinion are underfunded and disjointed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Is it a median or a barrier? It is an enclosed wall?

What you expressed earlier regarding police directing people into the tunnel, there is video of people doing that, of police directing people into that tunnel;

why was that concern dropped and never dealt with?

the answer was unsettling. The answer was, 'Well, basically, this is the way we have always done it.'

one of my concerns was that there were more tickets issued than space available in the ticketed areas.

Well, Chief, what happened? I know barriers did not show up because a truck broke down.

Okay. Well, do you know enough now about how and what happened with the filling of that tunnel so that we do not have 'son of purple tunnel of doom' in 2013?

It was widely reported that, in the year 2000, I actually considered running for what, which is really I didn't but that's OK. Mayor of New York, governor of New York, president of the United States.

If you can't do it in the private sector, the Federal Government certainly shouldn't be able to do it.

I think the CFTC must preserve the price discovery aspect of the markets and risk management hedging benefits that it provides.

The CFTC should be proactive and try to anticipate matters that pose a threat to systemic risk.

It is important that whatever regulations are put in place does not constitute strangulation of the commodities in the whole.

Considering the role that ATF already plays in regulating AN, what step will DHS take to ensure that its new AN regulations will not result in redundant Federal inspection activities, unnecessary expense to the taxpayer, and additional…

one of the failings in the past... is that NASA becomes the handmaiden of the Office of Management and Budget.