Allowing the Regulation to move forward would cause enormous and destructive impacts to America's supply chains and economy, and likely increase greenhouse gas emissions.

mitigate staffing shortages by hiring, training, and certifying technical staff to be ready to assume those critical radar maintenance duties as technicians retire.

I think we all can say in the Loredo TSA, no problem at all.

There is a proposed amendment to the FAA administration reauthorization that would require TSA to provide secure escorts for individuals, Members of Congress.

That is another program that I have been involved in from the very beginning.

The Operation Stonegarden Program that we have is incredibly important tool that we have to help primarily our border communities enhance their capability and the cooperation amongst the agencies that are there.

What is the legal--like for somebody who is presenting legal documents how is the TSA like, saying you can't go on this flight?

Your department was stood up when 19 foreign nationals misrepresented who they were and used our infrastructure and our resources to bring a catastrophic attack of course on September 11.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Administrator, the Federal Air Marshals go down there, I think there is a call for a surge--I mean, you know, when there is a need for a surge, they are sent there voluntarily?

China is just--you know what they are doing in Latin America. They are in almost every country.

I want it to go to directly to the local sheriffs, local police sheriffs.

This is the most serious threat to our Nation that I have seen in more than 30 years in the U.S. Government.

we are here to talk about the budget but also glad that we are able to fully fund TSA's new pay structure for fiscal year 2024

This last appropriation bill, the current one, we have enacted funding for 2024 an additional $570 million.

With the current resource limitations, I am very concerned about your agency's capacity to defend against the threats that you just mentioned, especially when you said, it is only the tip of an iceberg.

We urge you to deny the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) application to exempt its In-Use Locomotive Regulation from the Clean Air Act.

As a sportsman, I appreciate you using the word hunters, hunters to find those threats, because, again, some of them, like you mentioned, are deep somewhere else.

That is not sufficient for me to say that there was no impropriety.