Mike Rogers

I am a big believer that canines are going to be the only way that we ultimately ever to achieve anything close to 100 percent screening of air cargo so quick.

I would urge you to--we would tender those to you to consider us working to get rid of redundant, unnecessary rules.

I rise today in strong support of House Resolution 1761, a resolution congratulating Auburn University quarterback and College Park, Georgia, native Cam Newton on winning the 2010 Heisman Trophy for being the most outstanding college…

Yes, I think it is. And you have to remember what this is all about.

You mean the same people that couldn't get water to Katrina, the same people who couldn't process the cash for clunkers transactions are now going to take care of my sick grandmother?

I think reducing duplication and extra work on things like this makes a lot of sense.

Less than 2 percent of dangerous goods transported is by air, and most of these batteries aren't going on aircraft as it is already.

Well, yes, and to clarify, what I am talking about are lithium metal batteries which are not what you see in your cell phone or your laptop computer.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has the important mission of keeping terrorists and weapons out of the United States, while also facilitating trade and travel.

Let us get out of their way and not say, 'The only way you get funding is if you use our contractor who may be coming from Texas or somewhere.'

So you have a Federal Emergency Management Agency, but you don't really want to spend the money to make it what it needs to be?

I would like to ask Mr. Skinner, you know, first, I want to amen everything you said about letting the dust settle and roots grow into the ground with FEMA.

It is also changing culture in the organization.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how we can continue to improve communications and coordination between FEMA regions and state and local emergency response organizations.

Now, of course, FEMA still has work to do.

I strongly feel, while more work remains to be done, FEMA has made significant progress over the last 2 years.

I know that this is not always convenient, and you put a lot of time, energy into these opening statements and preparing for these questions.

I have been an advocate for the center to try to package more of that training and take it out in increments.

I still think it is too few. I think we should be over 20,000, but we hit that goal.

I am very opposed to that. This has become a well-organized Department.

This is old in the 1950s war style 'Soprano' type politics, that, you know, you go along to get along and you don't talk about these things in my district if you want something in your district.

Clearly, it would show that this is not the right place to place that money. They've wasted a lot of it already. And it's -- we're just wasting -- throwing money down a rat hole when we've got serious challenges in the intelligence…

Oh, this was an oversight.

The interesting thing about TSA, I have been over to, the last couple of years, most of the breeding and training programs for canines in this country. And the interesting thing about TSA is they have the most stellar breeding program…

I would like to sum up by emphasizing that it is critically important for the Members to recognize that we need to put these kinds of accountability measures in place so that we can ensure that as we go forward with the massive…