the American people need that degree of confidence.
Bourbon is an extremely important product in my district and my State.
We will end our combat mission in Iraq by August 31, 2010.
I don't know why we need the Customs and Border Protection organization or ICE or any of the others, even the Department if we are going to ...
It is deja vu all over again, because just last week at our rail and transit security hearing, we were talking about an enormous amount of g...
I am thrilled about that.
Mr. Chairman, that is the most brilliant opening statement I have ever heard.
Fix housing first.
this is significant.
I would suspect he knows more about this than anybody else having been in charge over there.
Are you telling me that you are checking every one of those vehicles to be sure it is not transporting guns or cash south into Mexico?
I am talking about 16 lanes of traffic going south, 2 miles long backed up, and you are checking every vehicle?
We started working on this when we first started this Subcommittee--even before that--and we have been on it now for, I don't know, 7, 8 or ...
If we had a way to know that it had been opened and tampered with by a truck driver who had been bought off by the cartel, would that not be...
I am told that 90 percent or so of the heroin entering this country and cocaine and others, that 90 percent of that coming into the country ...
From the days of the Revenue Cutter Service to the Higgins boats at Normandy, riverboats in Vietnam, patrol boats in the Persian Gulf, the C...
I don't sense an urgency on the part of the Department in the slightest to get this done.
It would revolutionize the way that we secure containers coming to us from all over the world.
