The entire industry relies very heavily on these reports as well as a monthly cold storage report, which we understand will continue.

I think you expressed the sentiments of all of us with regard to the casualties and the situation in Boston.

I just want to applaud the Department's decision in that regard.

Mr. Speaker, most Americans watching these proceedings today are watching them on C-SPAN. C-SPAN is a public service that was created by the cable industry in 1979 to carry our House proceedings and other public affairs programming. It's…

So your standard is 100 miles from the border, okay? Most States 100 miles from the border is all the way across the State; 100 miles from El Paso is Midland.

Anything less than that is unacceptable, and you know we are going to be sending out surveys and investigation staff to ensure that that is the case because we just can't have another shortfall, and I appreciate your taking that challenge.

I am totally opposed to the closing of those stations, and law enforcement across our State is opposed to it, too.

Congress has invested billions of dollars in CBP since September 11th, particularly in bolstering Border Patrol staffing to a record 21,370 agents.

The American people are not going to fall for play on words anymore. They are going to want reality of border security.

I have been preaching regular order to many people for a long time. It is the backbone of being in Congress.

DHS must find a way to accomplish its vital mission with increasingly scarce resources.

I found the logic that has been argued to this committee very peculiar over this issue.

It is a shame that we have to witness this, it is a shame that we have to lose American citizens injured and killed.

Somehow we have got to remind ourselves every single day that there is somebody out there that wants to do harm to Americans.

This budget submission severely diminishes current, near-term, and future capabilities.

I have always thought it would be a good idea to have the Coast Guard on the Rio Grande, for a long, long time.

Our job is to get rid of that fear.

I am going to get off on something kind of local. We see, once again, this administration is again proposing to close nine inland Border Patrol stations...