We need to be closing down TSA as we know it, and instituting a safer, more secure, less bureaucratic, and more effective system.

But until you have an ID that can tell you who that person is, everything that they do with these programs, to me, is, again, sort of a sham.

the administrator of TSA is stonewalling our committee, which created TSA, and refuses to communicate or work with our committee.

the system doesn't make us any safer. In fact, now the customers are at risk.

I went up to Boston to look at what they had set up there, and it was a--it was almost a joke.

I think I have put in law at least 3 times that they should develop a biometric identification.

So, you really--and what scares me with these pre-clearance programs... is kind of scary to think about this, but Mr. Cravaack is a pilot, and he actually controls the--a plane and can do whatever he wants with the plane.

I don't think so. And see, that is the problem, because they continually, day after day, week after week, month after month, screen Members of Congress.

Amtrak's food and beverage service has incurred a direct operating loss of over $526 million in the last 6 years.

I am a fiscal conservative. You can move more people for less. As far as the environment, energy, it is absolute winner.

I was very pleased preceding this hearing, and I asked the question before, we went to a nine-member board and seven members of the board had been appointed.