Thank you so much, and I thank Members. If other Members have questions or other additional inquiries that they would like to submit to our witnesses, I welcome them, and I ask unanimous consent that today's record be kept open for a…

I am going to ask the American people who are watching these hearings to take this matter into their hands.

$350 million lease, subverting this committee. We have a major crisis.

This, as I said in my opening statement, is a delicate situation. We have what started out as a small scandal now turning into a massive scandal with a number of people who have been involved.

I think our initial inquiries were thwarted on that. But I have particular interest in that.

I have got people in my district losing their homes, their jobs, they are struggling to make ends meet.

request to submit Congressional Research Service memo entitled, "Analyzing Restrictions on Amtrak Food and Beverage Services," from Alissa Dolan, Legislative Attorney, to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 26, 2012

You go after people, and you have tough enforcement, and you curtail the bastards, pardon my French, and stop them.

This deserves the attention of the President of the United States.

part of the problem of the situation I think we are in is Congress, 4 years the other side of the aisle was in charge, and I don't recall a single hearing.

If you are telling me Mexico is still the source and it continues to be the primary source, that is correct?

Do we have a plan to deal, I mean, almost all of the narcotics and violence and precursors are coming out of Mexico?