John Mica

Those failures by manufacturers to report cybersecurity vulnerabilities to the Federal Government undermine the partnership that is necessary to protect the public safety from cybersecurity threats. That is simply unacceptable.

The private sector's come up with some incredible innovations. You're setting standards and trying to protect the owner and the consumer.

We want to see it. You can, and you will, and we'll have it here within 10 days, okay?

So it's not--I mean, I guess I just put these things in law and then we just forget them.

I want a date, a firm date.

Well, we have spent a lot of money and we don't see a lot of progress.

I have to put blame also on us.

But you need to get out of this Mickey Mouse business, let someone else do the screening, set the standards, conduct the audits.

You need to be vetting your personnel. We have got report after report, the ones that were just released, they are not vetting their people.

We are going to lose this effort if we continue to put the money into a huge bureaucracy.

The private sector can screen and they do it well. They perform even better, I am absolutely convinced on the covert screening that I have seen and the reports I have had back.

It is unacceptable that taxpayer funds are wasted on such unnecessary duplication of efforts.

This is outrageous. In this case, TSA's blatant disregard for private-federal screening has unfairly resulted in a 7 percent increase in the cost of private screening operations compared to federal screening.

It is not done at any cheaper wages or benefits. That is all baloney, okay? Because we require that.

They built a huge bureaucracy--do you still have 4,000 people around Washington, DC, making, on average, $103,000 apiece?

Every study we have had--y'all--we just had--I have TSA oversight on my Transportation Subcommittee assignment. We just had a hearing at the full committee level, and the IG GAO came in and said almost every area, TSA is failing.

TSA sent their goons down and intimidated this airport director--and they have done that around the country--

You will never get it right, I can assure you.

I love your attitude, I love your willingness to be open with the committee.

It's been a disaster in every classified hearing I've sat in, the failure rate.

I'm Mr. Dumb Terrorist. Okay? Where am I going to go under the system?

This should be tomorrow.

I have never said do away with TSA. I have said change your role, change the resources to connecting the dots, to security.

$1 billion was spent on behavior detection. We have hundreds, thousands of officers.

Your chances of failure are almost 100 percent with the current system, even with the training that you employ.