I want the bill to be better so we can pass it.

I think we struggle with this as a metric--that is the way we are going to measure progress and making the border more secure.

That is a remarkable development and clearly a significant change for the better.

we really want to work as a Committee to help you accomplish your jobs, not throw up roadblocks

a key requirement for us to be able to come to that kind of agreement is really based on what we are talking about here--our border is more secure.

My real question is, is it a fool's errand to think that we can develop the technology...

We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying causes.

Unless we get our arms around health care costs rising, we are never going to really do a good enough job on deficit reduction.

Find out what works and do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that.

I believe that our efforts, and especially those of the dedicated men and women who work along the border, are paying off for the American taxpayers, and they need to.

I think that is true for all of us. Everything we all do, every Government program we have, I suspect we can do better.

I am concerned about two things in particular: refugees and student visas.

we do share pretty heavily with the Mexican Government in terms of air tracks.

If we are going to have four drones there, we need to be able to resource them.

Maybe we need to bring in 100,000 or 50,000.

These technologies help them quickly pinpoint where people are trying to cross the border illegally.

For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work.

It just defies belief.

I mentioned, Senator McCain, before you got here how valuable our visit to your border, your State's border with Mexico, was for me.

I saw a border that appears to me to be--and to a lot of other people--more secure than it has ever been.

We need to make sure that we are getting our money's worth out of those forces on the ground.

I believe in due process, but I still would do it.

Last month, I was able to visit portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona with one of our colleagues, Senator John McCain.

I just want to say thank you so much for coming early and staying late yet again--as we all are.

We ought to take them out.