At Port Everglades in my district, the Coast Guard had intercepted $500 million.

But the administration's own statistics show that crossing and apprehensions are at historic lows.

a border wall would not stop illegal drugs from coming into Florida.

A few minutes ago --

Let me be clear, a border wall would not stop illegal drugs from coming into Florida.

Half a billion dollars in drugs that they intercepted on the water, which a wall would not have helped us with.

the vast majority of illegal drugs are coming into our country through our ports of entry.

these cuts would be to critical military projects and our service members.

Despite President Trump's promise to do whatever it takes to combat the opioid crisis, his national emergency declaration would take $600 million from the Treasury Department's Drug Forfeiture Fund.

I will be honest with you, your response doesn't really give me a lot of confidence that you have got a system in place that is headed towards improving the situation.

Congressman Wasserman Schultz talked about the Federal Air Marshal Service. They are designed to be not visible to passengers.

Great. And I look forward to working with you as we discussed on my legislation so that we can further actualize that concept.

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. I yield back.

And that's why this committee, under Chairman Cummings, is trying to get information from the White House, which they have not yet sent, because we do need to get to the bottom of how those security clearances were granted, because as you…

I want to continue with Congressman Raskin's line of questioning, because in your report, you indicated a governmentwide security clearance backlog of 565,000 investigations.

the recent media reports that indicated that members of the Trump administration, including Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump, were able to obtain security clearances against the recommendations of White House staff, presumably using those…

So, in your opinion, could the President's overruling White House security clearance personnel's recommendations, impact the quality and integrity of a national security background check?

What is FEMA doing to simplify and streamline the process for reimbursements for emergency healthcare providers like Memorial?

Absolutely. And, Madam Chair, I think it is important to just remind people, as we got a very unfortunate reminder at FLL, that our transportation security officers are part of the layers of protection.

would it be appropriate for an individual to bypass the recommendation against a security clearance, from security clearance personnel?

Given President Trump's insistence that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election, how can we have confidence that this administration is taking the threat seriously?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Mr. Dodaro, good to see you. Glad to be able to have an opportunity to have some dialog with you.

They are absolutely engaging and influencing the political process.

one of the highest profile threats we face today is attempts by nation state actors to maliciously interfere in our democratic elections.

So you would not believe Vladimir Putin if he denied their intentions.