I think the President ought to have that tool and just try it for 4 years, a 4-year test drive, fully constitutional.
We in Congress and the American people have tasked our Department of Justice with very weighty responsibilities: protecting the Nation again...
I like to say as an old Naval flight officer, we are pretty good at re-fighting the last war.
Let us be very clear in our mission: A terrorist attack or a major catastrophic event knows no municipal, State, or Federal boundary.
I am proud of it.
This collaboration that the Administrator speaks about, it is absolutely key.
The fact is that we face a determined, innovative foe, and no machines can substitute for good intelligence, well-trained screeners, and an ...
I am also concerned about the threat that those 30 million passengers face.
I understand, Dr. Flynn, that in your written testimony you provide compelling evidence of the deficiency of rail and transit security.
This is important, too, and I tried to go back and forth as best I could.
I vote for counterterrorism joint interagency task forces pointed at the key areas where we still face al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
I like to say that everything I do, I know I can do better.
I also believe we are in a safer place as a result of this reorganization that we put in place a number of years ago.
I was impressed with, I think, last week's remarks by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, on how intelligence information ...
I said to my colleagues today at another meeting that while I think there is a sense of justice with respect to Osama bin Laden and hopefull...
I certainly hope we will keep that concern in mind as we consider the three nominees before us today.
the Department of Defense and the FBI collectively had sufficient information to have detected Major Hasan's radicalization to violent Islam...
I completely agree with the Chairman that I doubt that the kind of integrated operation that was successful in going after Osama bin Laden c...
