Are there contractual limits or union limits, or what kind of limits do you have, to reprimand or correct or otherwise dismiss an employee for inappropriate activity, mismanagement, or contributing to the failure of the system to deliver…

The enemy in the drug wars never stops. They will find alternate sources, when we plug one hole, they find another one.

We need the icebreakers, because I can send our conventional Coast Guard cutters up there during the summertime...

I, for one, am a champion of trying to get us another icebreaker, but they are really expensive.

It should be a concern of the citizens of the United States that... they know they overwhelm the process.

We did approximately 30 percent worse in terms of cocaine interdictions this past year because of the effects of cutbacks of sequestration.

We want operations to work. And I agree wholeheartedly, and so does everyone on both sides of the aisle in this subcommittee.

But ultimately we have got to be able to have access up there.

It will just break your heart to see these families.

The law is not being enforced.

They are also disrupting Federal offices and insubordination shouldn't be tolerated.

Either this Administration does not see homeland security and law enforcement as important or it is trying to game Congress.

If you just enforce the law as it is written you are protecting the community.

We all know a political election-year budget proposal when we see one, and I am afraid that is what we have here today.

What we have here is a budget proposal that, if ever enacted, would result in more drugs on our streets, more illegal border incursions.

the law is mandatory, you agree, nondiscretionary, mandatory, shall.

there is no one more committed to enforce the law than Henry's constituents.

I agree that you have to have available 34,000 beds under this law.