I want to congratulate you on your nomination, and I also want to start out with a couple of personal words.
Bottom line, I believe your record indicates that you possess all of these qualities.
So it is working.
I want to just begin by thanking you for your attention to the border.
It is the soft underbelly of this country.
Has there been any appreciable reduction in violence at the border since you began?
And I think the time has come for it to be done--the tracking, that is.
I have worked for a number of years to try to mitigate the risks that I believe this program produces for our Nation.
Now, the question arises: How many passports are out there that were wrongly issued and are being used by those seeking ...
The State Department failed to clear all four of these passports through the Social Security number clearance check--fir...
My view is that no passport should be issued until these checks are complete.