I really want to urge you to not find any excuse acceptable by the chiefs of mission for not having a Visa Security Program.
I share Senator Collins' concern both about the decision to try Abdulmutallab in a regular Federal court as opposed to a military commission...
We are in a world war with the Islamist extremist terrorists who attacked us on September 11, 2001.
There ought to be a category where there is some basis for concern about contact with terrorism.
the obligation we have to everybody else on the plane is to check anybody we have reason to suspect of being a terrorist
You do hold people accountable, as is appropriate, and you go on with the aim of securing the country.
I thought--it may have been because of his personal background, too--he was asking reasonable questions.
It is too important that Congress' oversight be as good as it possibly can be.
As we all know, on this past Christmas Day, December 25, 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab slipped through the multi-layered defenses we have ...
We need a special commission that will engage the American people with the facts and the truth and the tough choices.
we do not know where that actual borrowing capacity, it is essential that we take actions well in advance.