Mike Rogers

Congress has the responsibility to pass an authorization bill.

The enduring problem for us, from our interest as a country, is the drug production, which has been forever the treasure trove of coca.

I think it is absolutely essential that we keep this a bipartisan issue.

There are a lot of important programs in this bill that together make up the soft power of U.S. national security.

From here on out, you actually have to show us facts and figures showing fewer tonnage than before or else you don't get the money.

This committee should take a lot of pride in the fact that we have made a difference in this country over the last 15 years.

Fewer drugs will make it into the United States, saving lives and making our communities safer.

Let us build on this success. Border security and keeping Americans safe used to be priorities for both our parties.

We need an all-of-the-above approach to border security that includes manpower, 21st Century technology, and barriers.

Now that today many of my Democrat colleagues are going to be calling for the abolition of ICE, and I don't understand that.

I understand the top U.S. objective there is the enduring defeat of ISIS.

Given what the world looks like right now, this approach seems detached from reality.

If we were to accept cuts of the magnitude proposed, it would make our nation less safe, and make it harder to achieve the effectiveness we all seek.

I firmly believe that strong investments in diplomatic and development programs are a central component of our national security.

This is something important, I think, for us and him--more important to him--for us to bear down and approve those nine pieces of this reorganization.

Well, it is a juggernaut. The Chinese are launching--have launched a juggernaut.

I hope the Chairman will join me in providing stability and certainty regarding chemical security--and avoid taking actions, which would undermine enactment of a bipartisan, long-term reauthorization.

I believe that with a bipartisan, bicameral process we can quickly give stakeholders the certainty they need and move a long-term reauthorization of CFATS to the President's desk.

I hope the tradition of bipartisanship on this issue can continue, despite the actions taken by the Majority today.

Before I begin, I would like to express my extreme disappointment that the Majority staff denied the Minority's request for a witness at today's hearing.

Why can't we have the computers marry? Can you help me out here? Don't promise something you can't deliver. But deliver.

It is incredible that we can't get this fixed. In the meantime, we have got young veterans die, going blind, suffering interminable illness because of bureaucratic crap.

It is inhumane the way we are treating some of these soldiers.

Many of the soldiers coming back through the hospital, for example, in Germany, when they get back home as a veteran they can't get access to their medical reports from the hospital in Germany.

H.R. 1 attempts to address these pressing issues, but the bill's provisions are deeply naive.