And I would just add, if I may, part of the design of this system is to address one of your concerns.

I think there is someone on the second panel who can probably answer that more exactly.

What this is attempting to address, many people don't have business contacts, or they didn't serve in politics before.

She knocked on doors, she went to the fish piers, she went to the grocery store.

She found people who would give her a $5 contribution to qualify her for running for office.

I am concerned that the Department seems to be very hesitant to use technology more fully to try to identify travelers.

What will you do to ensure that all resources are brought to bear by States, by local governments, and by the Federal Government to ensure that we never again see homebound elderly individuals who are incapable of evacuating themselves, or…

I really urge you to take a look at this. We need to be willing to use all the tools that we have.

What will you do to make sure that we do not have these egregious gaps in communication?

Of all those hearings, the one that stands out most in my mind because it was so tragic and so preventable was the hearing that looked at the number of homebound individuals and elderly, sick individuals in nursing homes who died because…

There was a case where a Mexican citizen with a contagious form of resistant tuberculosis was able to cross the border...

I personally think that we need to strengthen the law in this area and come up with a risk-based security scheme.

I am particularly interested in hearing Dr. Garza's thoughts on our ability to surge medical resources to respond to major medical events.

The thermal scanners are not perfect, that is certainly true, but they are a tool...

I, for one, accept the medical advice we heard that closing the border was not the answer.

I think that there is a very strong logic that whatever position limits we have be consistently applied across the markets.

Last year, we had a lot of discussion about closing what is known as the 'London loophole.'

To combat the effect that speculation has in our oil and agricultural commodity markets, I have introduced the Commodity Speculation Reform Act.