The system that we saw this afternoon was excellent.

Do they have the fire power if that vessel just decided to keep coming right on in through your perimeter and to pull alongside a vessel to stop it?

Are you comfortable with the ability of the system that we have set up now to permit that type of attack on a vessel in port?

the bottom line will be the legislation that will provide help and actual assistance to those ports for those in charge of security.

We will ask the Coast Guard. They have more responsibility for those vessels that are alongside while they're docked in port.

I was very impressed by the way things had been arranged and work here.

Perhaps when we get to the 100 percent screening of all baggage that's checked on the airlines, we could develop a system whereby my checked luggage from New Orleans to Port Everglades which then goes on a cruise ship, we know that that…

They had strip searched Congressman John Dingel, yes.

What we've done in Congress, and not without a great deal of argument, and debate, was to ensure in the future that all inspectors of luggage on airplanes will be done by Federal employees.

The argument by some in Congress was that in order to ensure the viability of those inspections, you cannot do it on the cheap.

I congratulate you and Customs for the recent drug bust on the Miami River which I think occurred just yesterday.

the biggest threat to a ship and a cruise line is not so much one that departs from the Port of New Orleans, or the Port of Houston, and Port Everglades, or the Port of Miami, but the two greatest vulnerabilities are just like what…

One of the earliest sponsors of that legislation was Florida's U.S. Senator, Bob Graham.

What, if anything, is different in those plans after 9/11, that were not there, or were not a part of the plan before 9/11?

I take it that this was done prior to 911?

Thank you very much gentlemen for your presentations, and of course, being willing to work with the Committee on this legislation and giving us your thoughts and ideas.

Is there a great deal, or is there some overlapping of their responsibilities?

How many groups, or individuals, or organizations, or governmental bodies are involved in the security at Port Everglades?