John Mica

We can't delay. I think this is good timing for the hearing.

Drones are here. And UAVs are here. And they're here to stay.

It's important, first, for safety.

We could do a hearing a year from now and see if they've completed the task.

I just want to conclude. I want to thank Mr. Connolly. I want to thank Mrs. Comstock, and the chairman particularly, for working on this. I think we have gotten the attention of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. We have…

Again, Mr. Chairman, I am willing to work with everyone. Again, I have had to conduct oversight over a tragedy that could have and should have been prevented. Here is the latest headline: ``Can You Hear Me Now? In Metro Tunnels, Answer Is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 53, line 11, strike the colon and all that follows through line 15 and insert a period. The Acting…

It is not right to penalize the freight rails for delays that are by an agency and things beyond their control.

The joke is there is more FRA Administrators--we have had more FRA Administrators than we have had RRIF loans.

In fact, it has been difficult. In fact, they have had to go through lawsuits.

I will now read the name of the brave Marine from my district: Sergeant Ward Mark Johnson IV, Altamonte Springs, Florida, Florida's Seventh Congressional District. Mr. Speaker, greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his…

We failed to connect the dots. The dots were there.

If you could patch that fence, then you could put five pounds of plastic explosives on a drone, and drive it into an airplane as it's taking off or use shoulder fired missile, come into the market, do the same thing.

We need to get this information, people who pose the risk we can identify, go after them or stop them.

We tried to put in place a behavior detection system, which was a total failure.

These are failures of this very expensive, $7 billion, 61,000 people, system. This is an indictment, and it's very concerning.

The threat is very serious and ongoing and that the bad guys are one step ahead of us.

The acquisition history is a complete fiasco.

We have identified vulnerabilities caused by human and technology failures.

I think it's an insult to the Committee that TSA would not send the acting administrator to this panel with due notice.

Get TSA out of the screening business.

I think you did an excellent job. The problem is it just highlights that after years and years, we have created a very expensive, dysfunctional, transportation security system, and there are many potentials for risks that are not addressed.

That's a failure, is it not, Mr. Roth?

It's an embarrassment that they would do that.

We need to change the law if they won't change the rules and get a handle on this.