"I always have said this from the time that I have been on this committee, while things are calm, people make suggestions as to why you have the Homeland Security Committee."
"It is very difficult for me to believe that we don't have mandatory training for our flight attendants."
"I ask you to join me in the roundtable discussions."
"I think we should jump right into it, jump right into climate change, and find that balance."
"Does the industry see, as you grow and we find more supporters of all the above or most of the above, that you will have to diversify and reach out to Hispanic, historically-Black, and redo your workf..."
"And it should respond to this crisis of separating our families."
"You need to stop this now. These cause bleeding, these cause injury, these can cause a terrible tragedy."
"What you have is a compact area that flight attendants are dealing with passengers and under the new laws, no doors will be open for their relief."
"If I was to splash a flight attendant with orange juice and water, and I know there are flight attendants there and I have great respect for them, I assume they would still be standing."
"I remember distinctly the creation of TSA being on the Select Committee on Homeland Security."
"Congratulations for your leadership of the committee. Congratulations to my friend and colleagues, Mr. Richmond for his service as the Ranking Member."
"I have supported you in your uniform change. I have supported you in the sense of the law enforcement concept."
"You may have had a meeting with the flight attendants. Over the years I have introduced legislation for mandatory defensive training."
"So there may be longer lines?"
"April 24 is too precipitous and too uncertain to move forward with knives on the airplane."
"Do you think that the sequestration will have a more devastating impact than what might be represented?"
"Let me thank you very much for your work, Secretary Lute, and I do want to thank my Chairman and Ranking Member, their timing is impeccable."
"The forest products industry employs almost 900,000 people across the country, not including jobs directly supporting the industry."
