We appreciate Senator Landrieu's interest in this topic, which we have also explored at length.

We want to see some of these custom approaches and we will be pushing.

Let me ask this--probably lots of good people are frequent flyers, but there might be some bad people that are frequent flyers.

I applaud your efforts to move away from a one-size-fits-all screening approach to a more risk-based approach.

I think this should be an issue for mayors that are trying to promote their cities and for Governors that are all about creating jobs and opportunity.

I think that is a very important point. I mean, as happy as it sounds to designate a special lane for prescreening passengers, it would be very aggravating to be a nonscreened passenger and stand there for 45 minutes watching no one go…

The Visa Waiver Program must be expanded quickly to include our most important potential trading partners like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Poland.

I just want to again remind everyone that it will be, I guess, 11 years this September that this industry has been topsy-turvy.

I think this is a very interesting point and it may just be my perspective as a former local elected official just on behalf of my constituents.

I call it crony capitalism because it was a lot of the people who supported the law found out about it.

Allowing more international visitors to enter the United States is not a zero sum game.

Those are big numbers. You also made the comment that exhibition attendees are not shopping at outlet malls.

one of the big promises that President Obama made was if you like what you have, you can keep it.

the biggest complaint that they have is that under the rules they have already seen, let alone the rules that haven't been written, they don't see how they are going to be able to comply with the law.

Much of the focus of this hearing has been on how the Federal Government can make air travel more efficient and convenient without sacrificing security.

The Foreign Operations bill gave the State Department video conferencing capability or authorization to use video conferencing and doubled the Chinese tourism validity from 1-2 years.

We really do need to adopt guidelines at the State Department that define what are the parameters for the approval or the denial of a visa application.

last year I introduced legislation called the Fair Airline Industry Revenue (FAIR) Act to increase security fees on airlines that charge passengers for their first checked bag.