Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

You don't have to say container, but what I'm trying to do is to get something that's measurable, where we can look in a logical way at what these changes are going to do to the resupply pattern in there.

For our purposes, I think we may be looking at the necessity of a more robust Federal response.

In other words, what we are moving through Pakistan right now. Per container, what's the cost of moving it that way, what's the time, what's the volume that we are able to move over a period of time, say a quarter, 3 months, whatever it…

This is really not a hearing necessarily about AIG but about how we regulate the insurance industry in general.

Guns are a serious problem. The fact that literally thousands of guns are flowing from the United States into Mexico every day is arming these drug cartels.

We have a responsibility, and to ignore it by saying, well, if we were not irresponsible, somebody else would be irresponsible, is cold comfort to people living in a country where 6,000 people were killed last year, mainly because of…

The reintroduction and passage of a bill to regulate .50-caliber firearms under the National Firearms Act would go a long way in helping to reduce the number of assault weapons flowing into Mexico.

We have to really look at the source of this problem. It is our insatiable drug appetite, some 35 million users in the United States, that has created this problem and provides the money that is fueling these drug cartels and this violence.

When it comes to Mexican drug cartels, there is too much at stake to allow us to be divided.

I think there is a perception today of a need for the U.S. to understand its own responsibilities and own up to them.

The only way we are going to be successful is to truly mount a comprehensive attack upon the cartels.

I want to thank the entire panel and just note for the record that we had ten members of this Committee come to ask questions, which is extraordinary for a Subcommittee meeting.

I recognize the right of American citizens to defend themselves, to use guns legally for sporting and hunting.

90 percent of the weapons that we traced that the Mexicans recover are source state here in the United States.

The threat posted to American citizens and communities by the Mexican-based drug-trafficking organizations cannot be underestimated.

I am appalled that you can buy a .50-caliber sniper weapon anywhere.

Arizona has become the gateway for drugs and human being smuggling into the rest of the United States.