I think that the impetus that the President's decision is giving us will change the reality on the ground.

this report indicates that TSA is unable to properly identify and address vulnerabilities which continue to occur year after year

Because it wasn't clear in the Inspector General's report as to whether or not that had reached the 50-percent level.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, Secretary Napolitano. In fact, one of my staff people witnessed your work at TSA firsthand, as a screener. They said you did an excellent job.

Can this work, despite everybody's best efforts?

I think that Afghanistan has a unique place in the historical narrative of these extremists that makes it especially important to us.

Are you optimistic about securing full cooperation from the Gulf countries?

Even though the Inspector General indicated that there there's a shortage of TSA personnel, in regard to the screening program?

Do you think it's possible to reach the 100-percent deadline for air cargo screening, by August of 2010?

If you combine the issue of fatigue, low salaries, lack of experience... all of these amount to a potentially dangerous situation for passengers and pilots.

I think it's essential. It's obviously languished for more than a half a century, and it has been on the National Transportation Safety Board's Most Wanted List since 1990.

The recent arrest of Najibullah Zazi demonstrates the tremendous benefits of information sharing.

The stresses are showing up in the form of breakdowns, suicides, sometimes homicides.

But we do no favor to all of our fellow Americans who are Muslim by ignoring real evidence that a small number of their community have, in fact, become violent Islamists and extremists.

The prohibited activities that are listed in this manual are all geared toward organized activities.

Leaderless resistance is ultimately a strategy of weakness.

I am concerned, however, by reports that our Federal law enforcement and counterintelligence agents may have backed off from further inquiries into Major Hasan's activities based on concerns about his First Amendment rights.

We hope that one of the results of our investigation will be a new pamphlet on extremist activities that incorporates the lessons of this case.