Having lived through 9/11 as a Member of the United States Congress, having gone to Ground Zero during the recovery period, and seeing that kind of pain...

I have supported you in your uniform change. I have supported you in the sense of the law enforcement concept.

Congratulations for your leadership of the committee. Congratulations to my friend and colleagues, Mr. Richmond for his service as the Ranking Member.

I remember distinctly the creation of TSA being on the Select Committee on Homeland Security.

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.

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.

You need to stop this now. These cause bleeding, these cause injury, these can cause a terrible tragedy.

It is very difficult for me to believe that we don't have mandatory training for our flight attendants.

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.

You may have had a meeting with the flight attendants. Over the years I have introduced legislation for mandatory defensive training.

I have made it very clear that I believe this is wrong-headed and really misguided.

I have always indicated that all of us become first responders.

Do you think that the sequestration will have a more devastating impact than what might be represented?

And it should respond to this crisis of separating our families.

April 24 is too precipitous and too uncertain to move forward with knives on the airplane.

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.

I think it also is a jobs question as well.