Why couldn't that have been done in time to report to this committee, since that was such an obvious question that you were going to be asked?

In the last 10 years, right after 9/11, 1,900 attacks were carried out against transit systems around the world, resulting in 4,000 deaths and 14,000 injuries.

Mr. Chairman, I want to take the opportunity, particularly, to tell our Democratic members of the Committee that, apparently, we just received word that there has been an agreement on the tax issue, and, therefore, if that is true, when we…

You lessen the number of entry points like Atlanta had, over 100, down to a handful, and you check the employees going through.

But you don't have enough resources.

I would just add to Senator Leahy's comments that a year ago, unfortunately, Honduras was known as the murder capital of the world, with the highest number of per capita murders per 100,000 people. That has improved somewhat. But that…

The Federal Government has a critical role to make sure that the regulatory and legal environment... is able to allow the development and manufacturing of these vehicles.

It's interesting that you mention drones, because tomorrow, in this committee, we're going to mark up the FAA bill.

No more cover-ups, no more head-in-the-sand approaches to safety. If we are going to avoid the tragedies, we've got to be johnny-on-the-spot.

There are technologies available, which have already been demonstrated to the Chairman and me, that take over that drone.

There are going to be many lives that could be saved by preventing preventable accidents.

If the drone gets sucked into the jet engine, that's a catastrophic failure.