Duncan Hunter

I specifically asked about the number of containers inspected prior to arrival at a U.S. port.

And the only way to do that is through one of these drive-through systems, meaning none of this is going to happen by a handheld device that someone is holding walking around or a belt device.

What percentage are inspected after they get here? So if 1 percent total----

So what happened was everybody said, 'That is impossible. There is no way to do that.'

If you are going to have a nuclear weapon come in, dirty or not, it is going to be shielded.

I guess my last question for all of you is, why wouldn't bad guys that want to get a bad device in the U.S. take the same routes as guys that want to get drugs into the U.S.?

If you want more of something, tax it less. You want less of something, tax it more.

Last Thursday was a tragic day for the American maritime community and America. El Faro, an American flagship en route to Puerto Rico, was lost in Hurricane Joaquin and, with it, its 33 crew, including 28 Americans. In the hours after we…

To the gentleman from Michigan's point, this is the process. I chair the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee. I am also the vice chairman of the Seapower Subcommittee in the Armed Services Committee. Mr. Forbes is the…

I am voting for this bill overall. In California, we don't drill anymore, and we are cutting down on our refineries even, but this is important for the Nation. One big part of this bill is the Maritime Security Program. If you don't know…

If a drone pulls down a plane that I am on, I guarantee you everybody you represent is going to get sued.

And, Mr. Chairman, if I may say, you at this table help us write this legislation. Because when we write legislation, 99 percent of the time it is screwed up.

I represent Las Vegas. And I was a strong proponent of Nevada being named one of the original test centers for this kind of technology.

Doing nothing in the face of a clear danger is not an excuse, to be perfectly honest.

Just do something before somebody loses their life on this.

Let's not mince words. It is not a perception. We do not have any heavy icebreakers and they do.

So it is Transportation and Defense, and the Coast Guard is kind of in the middle?

E-loran is the only cost-effective backup for national needs. It is completely interoperable with and independent of GPS.

We are not getting rid of GPS. We just want to make sure it is backed up so if it goes away.

It seems like we are falling behind.

Let me say to Chairman Goodlatte, thank you very much for your leadership on this and thanks for moving this so quickly. This is a timely bill, and I just want to thank you and your committee for moving it so quick. This legislation is…

the freight rail system is 99.995 percent safe based on the number of trips that are taken.

So my question is, when does quantity trump quality?

Probably true. I would agree with that.

The Coast Guard has built the Navy's littoral combat ship for them. And we are all very thankful.