Thank you, Mr. Crist. I'm going to recognize myself for 5 minutes, and then we'll continue with the hearing.
As a Representative of Texas' 7th congressional District in Houston right off the Gulf Coast, that of course perked up m...
I hope that we can agree that the status quo in which 11 million people are denied their basic rights by Cuba's authorit...
I think it is always a balance in this committee and when we deal with security issues, you know, we deal with privacy a...
This technology, in my judgment, has really protected the Nation from drug smugglers, gang members, and potential terror...
We all want to protect civil liberties and privacy.
I introduced the BITMAP bill, which is the Biometric Transnational Migration Alert Program.
Americans want to know that, if the Government collects their biometric data, they are going to keep it secure from hack...
This is unacceptable. It is not fair to expect certain people in our society to shoulder a disproportionate burden of th...
It is significant. I mean, it is an absolute vulnerability that, as we have seen, terrorists can exploit.
99.7 percent accuracy?
I am not opposed to biometric technology and recognize it can be valuable to Homeland Security in facilitation.
Despite advancement in recent years, studies by highly-regarded academic institutions have found facial recognition syst...
I have been to the border many times, and to this day I have never seen a kid in a cage...
Obamacare, as it was dubbed, should have been more dubbed Obama coverage.
But one can only imagine what Mr. J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this technology.
I assure you that I want us to secure our airports, our ports of entry, but I am also concerned about suspicionless surv...
My concern is suspicionless surveillance, suspicionless surveillance, surveilling persons who are not under suspicion pe...
